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MACMILLAN: SYMPHONY NO.4 VIOLA CONCERTO

HYPERION

$18.33 May 29, 2020

MacMillan's Viola Concerto was written for Lawrence Power, who brings a unique authority to it's first recording. A major addition to the repertoire, the fourth symphony is a generous and appropriate coupling. Both works incorporate and transform musical elements from the distant past.

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MACMILLAN: SYMPHONY NO.4 VIOLA CONCERTO
HYPERION May 2020
CD
$18.33

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Sony Masterworks Apr 1995
CD
$11.98

Glass: Symphony No. 4 / Raiskin, Rhenish Philharmonic State Orchestra

CPO

$18.99 Jun 17, 2022

Our third album with symphonies by Louis Glass features his Fourth Symphony - a large-scale work with a playing time of about one hour. It calls for triple woodwinds as well as six horns and the strongest wind section that Glass used in his symphonies. And the composer also works here with tighter thematic structures than in the three earlier symphonies. The piece immediately attracted attention and was not only performed repeatedly in Copenhagen from 1912 to 1933, but also abroad. After the composer's death, it was performed three more times; since then, however, it has probably not been performed in public. But with this large-scale symphony, Louis Glass had consolidated his position as one of the most important Danish symphonic composers of his time.

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Glass: Symphony No. 4 / Raiskin, Rhenish Philharmonic State Orchestra
CPO Jun 2022
CD
$18.99

Schmidt-Kowalski, T.: Symphony No. 4 / Violin Concerto No. 2
Naxos May 2006
CD
$19.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Reiss, Bychkov, Czech Philharmonic

PENTATONE

$19.99 Apr 08, 2022

The Czech Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov present a new recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, laying the foundation of a complete Mahler symphonies cycle to appear on PENTATONE. It will be the label’s first ever full Mahler cycle, and the Czech Philharmonic’s first survey of this extraordinary symphonic opus since their recording under Vacláv Neumann between 1976 and 1982. Although chiefly active in Vienna during the heydays of his career, Mahler was born in what is now the Czech republic, and through this recording project, he returns to his native soil. For conductor Semyon Bychkov, Mahler’s symphonies are all about expressing the polyphony of life, and recording these works is the fulfilment of a life-long fascination. This cycle deliberately starts with the most popular and frequently-played Fourth, famous for its macabre scherzo, soothing slow movement and heavenly finale, sung by soprano Chen Reiss. The Czech Philharmonic is one of the world’s most acclaimed orchestras, with a rich tradition of performing Czech masters and music from Central Europe. Semyon Bychkov has led the greatest orchestras of the world, and is Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic as of the 2018/2019 season. Soprano Chen Reiss frequently appears on the biggest opera and concert stages throughout the world. Chen Reiss, Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic all make their PENTATONE debut.

REVIEW:

The music of Gustav Mahler may have no greater champions than the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov, the orchestra's music director since 2018. The Czech Philharmonic's association with Mahler dates back to 1908, when the composer led the orchestra in the premiere of his Symphony No. 7.

Soprano Chen Reiss is a perfect match for the finale. She delivers the light playfulness necessary to depict a child and is equally serious when the mood shifts. The trust and communication between the musicians of the Czech Philharmonic and Bychkov is evident throughout as the orchestra responds to his demands and delivers an exciting and clean reading. One looks forward to further editions in this cycle with anticipation.

-- AllMusic.com (Kevin Finke)

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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Reiss, Bychkov, Czech Philharmonic
PENTATONE Apr 2022
CD
$19.99

Beethoven: Symphony No 4; Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23; Strauss / Gulda, Konwitschny
Orfeo Aug 2011
CD
$16.99

BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
SWR Mar 2003
CD
$20.99

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 / Furtwängler, Berln Philharmonic
Vox Mar 2023
CD
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Schmidt: Symphony No 4, Etc / Kreizberg, Netherlands Po

PENTATONE

SACD

$21.99 Jun 01, 2005

This selection is a Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD. The Stereo Hybrid SACD program can be played on any standard compact disc player. The DSD Surround and Stereo programs require an SACD player for playback.

At long last, Franz Schmidt’s magnificent Fourth Symphony is becoming a staple of the CD catalog, if not the concert hall. The mournful, nostalgic, yearning score, an elegy for a dead daughter and a dying culture (Vienna, 1934), is one of the last great gestures of the Romantic era. It’s Strauss without the bombast, Mahler without the neuroses. This 45-minute dirge received only one recording during the mono era, and then only one pre-digital stereo treatment—one of its best versions, by Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. That Decca recording, from about 1971, remains one of the finest things Mehta has ever done. I don’t mean that to sound like damning with faint praise; Mehta is far from my favorite conductor, but with this score and the Vienna Philharmonic he drew on emotional resources that would elude him later in his career. For its balance of sorrow, anguish, and uneasy peace, the Mehta recording has never quite been bettered. L’udovít Rajter and the Bratislava Radio Orchestra made the symphony’s first digital recording, in 1987, as part of an Opus cycle that produced the first decent versions of Schmidt’s first two symphonies (they and the Third are much sunnier works than the Fourth). Rajter’s Fourth was honorable, but was no longer necessary when Mehta finally appeared on CD and other better-played versions came along. Those latter include Franz Welser-Möst and the London Philharmonic (EMI, 1994), followed within a couple of years by Martin Sieghart and the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz (Chesky) and Neeme Järvi and the Detroit Symphony (Chandos). Members of the London Philharmonic nicknamed Welser-Möst “Frankly Worse than Most,” which is surely an overstatement, although in this lineup he’s better only than Rajter; even so, his disc is valuable for its inclusion of Schmidt’s Variations on a Hussar’s Song, otherwise available only on a hard-to-find Preiser CD. Sieghart is surprisingly competitive, perhaps edging out Järvi to come in a close second to Mehta.

Now, just at the dawn of the SACD era, we already have a first-rate new version of Schmidt’s Fourth in superb surround sound from Yakov Kreizberg and the Netherlands Philharmonic on PentaTone. The recorded sound is a bit distant, but detailed (clear enough to reveal an occasional grunt from the podium). More important, Kreizberg’s performance breathes nicely, with a natural rubato that makes its effect over large musical paragraphs more than through individual phrases. It isn’t quite my Schmidt ideal; the big climax about six minutes into the Molto vivace, which is effectively the third movement, could be marginally more cataclysmic. (An aside: The chorale just after this point would have been a better place than three minutes from the end to begin track 4, since the chorale introduces what is essentially the symphony’s recapitulation if you regard the work as one massive sonata-allegro movement.) Also, Kreizberg could have wrung more passion out of the little climax about two-and-a-half minutes from the end, the symphony’s last cry before it dies away into the bereft trumpet solo with which it began. But these are small points, and Kreizberg joins Sieghart just marginally behind Mehta.

Perhaps tipping the judgment to Kreizberg, besides the modern five-channel sound (the CD can also be played in two-channel stereo on a regular player), is the inclusion of three orchestral bits from Schmidt’s opera Notre Dame (as in the Victor Hugo novel known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The lush, string-centered, harp-haloed Intermezzo has been recorded many times before, most notably in a voluptuous, daringly slow Karajan version on EMI, but the Introduction and “Carnival Music” are comparative rarities. I’ve encountered these three pieces together as a suite only on an Opus/Musical Heritage Society LP by Rajter and the Slovak Philharmonic, where the music was inexactly billed as “Carnival and Intermezzo.” The suite is a welcome addition to this disc, but it should have come first rather than last; Schmidt’s devastating Symphony No. 4 should be followed only by silence.

James Reel, FANFARE

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Schmidt: Symphony No 4, Etc / Kreizberg, Netherlands Po
PENTATONE Jun 2005
SACD
$21.99

SYMPHONY NOS.4 AND 5

DUX

$21.99 Jun 25, 2013

Krzysztof Penderecki is one of the most famous and prominent living Polish composers. Symphonies have a special place in his legacy, but until now have never been recorded in a series under his artistic direction. In celebration of his 80th birthday, DUX presents the best performances of his works with the Sinfonia luventus. His great musical authority influences the young musicians' energetic and fresh sound.

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SYMPHONY NOS.4 AND 5
DUX Jun 2013
CD
$21.99

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Martinu: Symphony No. 4

ICA Classics

$11.99 ~~$14.99~~ Save 20% Feb 26, 2013

With stunning accounts of Brahms and Mahler, this recording marks an exciting, new relationship between ICA Classics and the SWR in Stuttgart, and it is the first release of this material outside Japan. 'Klaus Tennstedt's concerts with the LPO at the Festival Hall were among the greatest performances I have ever heard' (Sunday Times review of ICAC 5033, Mahler: Symphony No.3)

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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Martinu: Symphony No. 4
ICA Classics Feb 2013
CD
~~$14.99~~ $11.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 / Heras-Casado, Anima Eterna Brugge

HARMONIA MUNDI

$22.00 ~~$22.01~~ Save 0% Sep 13, 2024

For their first collaboration on harmonia mundi, Pablo Heras-Casado and Anima Eterna explore the world of Bruckner. The first instalment in this series is his tremendous Symphony No.4. An apotheosis of architectural rigour and poetry, this cathedral in sound, thanks to the unique sonorities of the period instruments played by the Bruges orchestra, regains it's lightness and elegance in dazzling orchestral colors!

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 / Heras-Casado, Anima Eterna Brugge
HARMONIA MUNDI Sep 2024
CD
~~$22.01~~ $22.00

Rubinstein: Symphony No. 4 "Dramatic" / Golovchin, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Delos

$18.99 Aug 28, 2012

Anton Rubinstein’s Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 95, emerged in 1874 – ending a dry spell of roughly 20 years since his previous efforts in the genre. It came at a time when the future of the purely instrumental symphony was in doubt, reflecting the notion of Wagner and his disciples that Beethoven had exhausted the possibilities of symphonic development – and that the day of “synthetic” art (the “Gesamtkunstwerk”), with its blend of symphonic, vocal and theatrical elements, had arrived. Rubinstein did not agree, and composed his fourth symphony in an apparent effort to prove that Beethoven’s methods were still valid. This marks Delos’ second re-release of Russian Disk’s acclaimed series of Rubinstein’s orchestral music, as performed with authentic idiomatic flair by Igor Golovchin and his Russian State Symphony Orchestra.

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Rubinstein: Symphony No. 4 "Dramatic" / Golovchin, Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Delos Aug 2012
CD
$18.99

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Bohm, Staatskapelle Dresden
Profil Feb 2012
CD
$24.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4, 1812 Overture, Etc / Ormandy
Sony Masterworks Aug 2002
CD
$11.98

Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary - Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4

Sony Masterworks

$17.99 Jul 07, 2011

Casals was as much at home conducting as he was playing cello, and this performance is imbued with the same bold and emphatic shaping, vigorous rhythmic drive and concern for the overall musical shape of the work being performed.

...The lion's share of the release is taken up by five CDs with Casals conducting. The repertoire is solidly mainstream: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8, Schubert's Fifth and Mendelssohn's Italian, and the Brahms Haydn Variations. These recordings are important if for no other reason than for documenting the work of one of the most powerful musical personalities of this century, who went on making music until his death in 1973 at the remarkable age of 96.

Casals was as much at home conducting as he was playing cello, and these performances are all imbued with the same characteristics as Casals's solo playing. They are very forthright with bold and emphatic shaping, vigorous rhythmic drive and concern for the overall musical shape of the work being performed. On the other hand, tempos are at times leisurely and there is a tendancy 'to enjoy the view'. This is very much an interpretative style more common to the first half of this century than the second. One feels that Casals is talking the same musical language as some of his great contemporaries such as Mengelberg and Furtwangler if without their personal idiosyncracies.

-- Gramophone [6/1991]
reviewing the Sony series of Marlboro 40th Anniversary CDs, which includes the present disc

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Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary - Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4
Sony Masterworks Jul 2011
CD
$17.99

American Classics - Piston: Symphony No 4, Etc / Schwarz

Naxos

$19.99 May 01, 2003

Walter Piston's lovely Fourth Symphony certainly deserves greater exposure than it gets, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be popular. It begins with a lovely, pastoral opening that leads to a rambunctious scherzo with some elegant waltz music interludes. The slow movement is one of the composer's finest: it builds to a superb climax of Brucknerian intensity, while the amiable finale closes the work in high spirits. Really, what's not to like? This is the work's only stereo recording (Ormandy's is screechy mono, but wonderful all the same), and it's a very fine one. Schwarz keeps rhythms crisp in the fast movements, and phrases the "Comtemplativo" very broadly and affectingly, with some excellent solo work from the winds of the Seattle Symphony.

The couplings are also very well done, the Capriccio's naturally dry string textures and bracing harmonic idiom providing an excellent stylistic foil to the solo harp. Three New England Sketches, one of Piston's very few "titled" works, also has impressive atmosphere, though Slatkin's out of print version on RCA was better still. No matter: these are fine performances very well recorded, and deserve your attention. Thanks to Naxos for keeping them in the catalog (and to the Seattle Symphony, which understood the necessity of not leaving the master tapes to molder in some closet or basement storage room once Delos deleted the original issues).
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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American Classics - Piston: Symphony No 4, Etc / Schwarz
Naxos May 2003
CD
$19.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto / Korsantia, Stuttgart Philharmonic

Haenssler Classic

$20.99 Jan 15, 2021

"This is a thrilling performance, which, like the Tchaikovsky Symphony, shows the indisputably high level of the Stuttgart Philharmonic." (Pizzicato LU) “The Stuttgart Philharmonic, founded in 1924, is in its 6th year under the busy Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger. His regular work at almost all of the leading opera houses in the world makes his approach to the melodies of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff just about perfect." (American Record Guide) The present album is a showstopping production of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony paired with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The featured soloist in the concerto is Alexander Korsantia, one of the leading pianists of our time. He has been praised for “piano technique where difficulties simply do not exist.” (Calgary Sun). His recordings of works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Copland have won multiple awards.

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto / Korsantia, Stuttgart Philharmonic
Haenssler Classic Jan 2021
CD
$20.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat Major "Romantic"
Querstand Feb 2025
CD
$25.99

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 / Rozhdestvensky, Orchestras of the BBC

ICA Classics

$26.99 Sep 23, 2022

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018) was one of Russia’s greatest conductors along with Evgeny Mravinsky and Kirill Kondrashin. His close personal and musical relationship with Shostakovich began in the 1950s and continued until the composer’s death in 1975. Rozhdestvensky said at the time, ‘It would be difficult to overestimate the significance of my relations with Dmitri Shostakovich since he opened before me a musical universe like a gigantic magnifying glass reflecting our fragile world’.

Rozhdestvensky conducted the first western premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.4 in Edinburgh in 1962 and after many subsequent performances internationally, it was also the inaugural piece in his tenure as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1979-81). Composed in 1936 but condemned by the Soviet authorities, it did not receive its first performance until 1961 in Moscow. The epic Symphony No.11, given a dramatic performance by the BBC Philharmonic in 1997, is based on revolutionary folksongs relating to the 1905 Russian Revolution, and received the Lenin Prize in 1958. Despite this, questions arose as to whether Shostakovich was denouncing the Soviet regime’s brutal treatment of its opponents in it, specifically the 1956 invasion of Hungary or the Tsarist tyranny and oppression of 1905, to which there are no conclusive answers.

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 / Rozhdestvensky, Orchestras of the BBC
ICA Classics Sep 2022
CD
$26.99

Mahler: Symphony No 4 / Chailly, Gewandhaus-Orchester

Accentus Music

DVD

$31.99 Apr 30, 2013

Also available on Blu-ray

Gustav Mahler
SYMPHONY NO. 4

Christina Landshamer, soprano
Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, 26–27 April 2012

Bonus:
- The Welte-Mignon Piano Player Device
- Mahler plays Mahler – Symphony No. 4 in G major: IV. Sehr behaglich
- Riccardo Chailly on interpreting Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Gewandhaus Orchestra

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Japanese
Running time: 61 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)

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Mahler: Symphony No 4 / Chailly, Gewandhaus-Orchester
Accentus Music Apr 2013
DVD
$31.99

Sibelius: Symphonies No 1 & 4 / Colin Davis, London Symphony
RCA May 2011
CD
$17.99

Symphonie No. 4 Lieder Eines
Orfeo Jul 1999
CD
$16.99

BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY 1 & SYMPHONY 4
LPO Nov 2016
CD
$15.99

SYMPHONIES NOS. 3 & 4
RCO LIVE HOLLAND Oct 2009
SACD
$25.99