Sinfonieorchester Basel – Franz Schubert – Symphony No.2 and No. 6
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Franz Schubert – Symphony No.2 and No. 6
Catalogue No.: SOB 07
Release: 10.11.2014
Description
Schubert’s symphonies were designed for a ‘big audience’, but during his lifetime they were, at best, only performed in the semi-public rooms of the Seminary and those of the amateur orchestra. It was not until barely a month after his death that the first truly representative performance took place through the Society of Friends of Music (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde) in Vienna. Leopold von Sonnleithner, a friend of Schubert’s, had some input into the programming and suggested the sixth symphony for the occasion. The “Great” C major could not be considered owing to practical constraints, but why was it number six in particular that was chosen out of his early symphonies? Were the reasons purely mundane – or was there a deeper rationale behind this decision? It would be good to know the answer, but today one can merely speculate.
The Sinfonieorchester Basel is one of the oldest and most important orchestras in Switzerland. It is strongly rooted in the north-west of Switzerland and at the same time enjoys a more than regional as well as international radiance. The Sinfonieorchester Basel is always again demonstrating anew its excellent quality, whether it be in its own concert tiers, in the Theater Basel or in guest concerts at home or abroad. Since 2009, the principal conductor has been the renowned American conductor and pianist, Dennis Russell Davies.
Tracklist
Largo – Allegro vivace
Andante
Menuetto. Allegro vivace
Presto vivace
Sinfonie Nr. 6 in C-Dur, D 589
Adagio – Allegro
Andante
Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Più lento
Allegro moderato
Sinfonieorchester Basel – Igor Strawinsky – Le Sacre du printemps
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Igor Strawinsky – Le Sacre du printemps
Catalogue No.: SOB 06
Release: 15.09.2014
Description
Version for Piano Four Hands performed by Dennis Russell Davies & Maki Namekawa
As early as spring 1910 Igor Stravinsky had a vision of a “great pagan festival” the climax of which would be the death of a young girl who dies of exhaustion after a frenzied dance, surrounded by the elders of her tribe. A further eighteen months would elapse however, during which Stravinsky consulted with the archaeologist and painter Nikolai Roerich to produce several versions of a libretto, before the composer set about realizing his vision by writing the score for this, his most famous ballet. Initially, the score bore the working title The great sacrifice, but was then renamed The Rite of Spring, and marked the international career breakthrough for the composer, not yet 32 years old, following his two earlier ballets for Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, Firebird and Petrushka. And it has to be said that that breakthrough came with a mighty drumroll: when Le Sacre was premiered on May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, choreographed by the young Vaslav Nijinsky and under the musical direction of Pierre Monteux, the ballet caused one of the greatest scandals in the history of music and theatre ever – though it has to be said that Nijinsky’s choreography, with its stamping, twitching body movements that seem to truly mock the ideal of weightless grace normally expected in dance, was at least as much to blame as Stravinsky’s music. That said, this was not a performance suited to those of a nervous disposition, since the composer had transformed the orchestra to a great extent into a gasping, snorting, and above all hammering monster producing a sound that bore no resemblance whatsoever to the elegance of traditional ballet music.
Tracklist
1. L’Adoration de la terre 17:34
2. Le Sacrifice 18:28Le Sacre du printemps (piano version)
3. L’Adoration de la terre 17:29
4. Le Sacrifice 19:31
Sinfonieorchester Basel – Arthur Honegger
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Arthur Honegger Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4 “Deliciae Basiliensis”
Catalogue No.: SOB05
Release: 12.05.2014
Description
The Sinfonieorchester Basel is one of the oldest and most important orchestras in Switzerland. It is strongly rooted in the north-west of Switzerland and at the same time enjoys a more than regional as well as international radiance. The Sinfonieorchester Basel is always again demonstrating anew its excellent quality, whether it be in its own concert tiers, in the Theater Basel or in guest concerts at home or abroad. Since 2009, the principal conductor has been the renowned American conductor and pianist, Dennis Russell Davies.
Honegger finally completed his Second Symphony in December 1941
and sent it to Sacher. Sacher then performed it for the first time on May 18, 1942, nowwith his second orchestra, the Collegium Musicum in Zurich.
.„Deliciae Basilienses“ – „I have written this fourth, and probably last, symphony for my friend Paul Sacher for the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Basle Chamber Orchestra. Although this ‘Symphonie liturgique’ follows the tradition of Beethoven, in that its content is as much dramatic as emotional, it has greater claims, so far as its form and spirit are concerned, to the style of Haydn or Mozart.
Tracklist
Molto moderato – Allegro
Adagio mesto
Vivace ma non troppo – Presto
Symphony No. 4 “Deliciae Basiliensis”
Lento e misterioso – Allegro – Lento – Allegro molto tranquillo
Larghetto
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro
Sinfonieorchester Basel – Schubert Symphony No. 8
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Symphony No. 8 – Grosse C-Dur-Sinfonie
Catalogue No.: SOB 03
Release: 18.11.2013
Description
The Sinfonieorchester Basel is one of the oldest and most important orchestras in Switzerland. It is strongly rooted in the north-west of Switzerland and at the same time enjoys a more than regional as well as international radiance. The Sinfonieorchester Basel is always again demonstrating anew its excellent quality, whether it be in its own concert tiers, in the Theater Basel or in guest concerts at home or abroad. Since 2009, the principal conductor has been the renowned American conductor and pianist, Dennis Russell Davies.
Numerous CD productions, some of which received international acclaim and awards, give record of the orchestra’s work. Since a few years ago the Sinfonieorchester Basel has been demonstrating an increasing international presence. In 2010, for example, the orchestra toured around China. It has also played two much accredited for concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow in fall 2012 and will tour around England in spring 2014.
Tracklist
Andante. Allegro ma non troppo
Andante con moto
Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio
Finale. Allegro vivace
Absolut Trio – Wahlverwandtschaften
Artists: Absolut Trio
Title: Wahlverwandtschaften – Werke von Schubert, Schumann, Andreae, Käser und Lee
Catalogue No.: SM 180
Release: 18.02.2013
Description
The German term Wahlverwandtschaften “elective affinities” was originally used to describe the tendency of chemical substances to separate from their original compound to combine with elements of another compound. Goethe adapted it in referring allegorically to the fate of the two couples dealt with in his 1809 novel of the same name.
The works presented on this CD are grouped in accordance with the idea of elective affinities. Several of the pieces are removed from their original contexts: the movements from Schubert’s Trios in B flat major and E flat major from their place in the composer’s oeuvre, the two transcriptions of Schumann’s vocal duets from their respective collections. Now they enclose contemporary works: Mischa Käser’s Piano Trio and Junghae Lee’s Sonorletten.
Three experienced and enthusiastic chamber musicians came together in 2003 to form the Absolut Trio.
Since 2009 the ensemble has consisted of Bettina Boller violin, Judith Gerster cello and Stefka Perifanova piano.
Artistic involvement with contemporary music is of prime importance for the three musicians of the Absolut Trio, which is why they commission works at regular intervals. Eight weighty works for piano trio (some with live electronics) have come into being in that way and they are integrated into richly evocative programmes as trouvailles and rare items that deserve to be exposed to the light of day.
Tracklist
Trio f-moll für Klavier, Violine und Violoncello, op. 1Franz Schubert
Andante un poco moderato aus dem Klaviertrio op. 99Mischa Käser
Klaviertrio Nr. 1Franz Schubert
Andante con moto aus dem Klaviertrio op. 100
Robert Schumann
Liebhabers Ständchen, op. 34,2 bearb. für Klaviertrio
Junghae Lee
Sonorletten für Klaviertrio und Elektronik
Sinfonieorchester Basel – Arthur Honegger – Symphony No. 3 “Liturgique” and No. 1
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Arthur Honegger – Symphony No. 3 “Liturgique” and No. 1
Catalogue No.: SOB 02
Release: 24.09.2012
Description
The Basel Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonieorchester Basel) is one of Switzerland’s major orchestras and appears both in concert and at the opera house. For decades it has produced a wide array of highlights under the batons of such conductors as Felix Weingartner, Hans Münch, Moshe Atzmon, Matthias Bamert, Gary Bertini, Pierre Boulez, Armin Jordan, Nello Santi, Mario Venzago and Walter Weller. Its CD recordings of the music of Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel, Klaus Huber, Luigi Nono and Othmar Schoeck have received great international acclaim and many awards. ‘A Different Schumann’, for example, was awarded the Golden Tuning Fork from the German music industry.
Today the Basel Symphony Orchestra numbers among Switzerland’s
leading musical ensembles, with some 100 highly qualified and highly
motivated musicians. Its broad repertoire ranges effortlessly from the
Viennese classics and to contemporary music. Whether in the concert hall or the opera house, at home or on its domestic and foreign tours, this internationally varied group of musicians constantly demonstrates ist unique flexibility and artistic prowess.
One of the orchestra’s wishes came true in the 2009-10 season when ist leadership was taken over by the renowned American conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies.
Tracklist
Symphony No. 3 “Liturgique” | ||
Dies irae: Allegro marcato | 07:30 | Arthur Honegger |
De profundis clamavi: Adagio | 12:23 | Arthur Honegger |
Dona nobis pacem: Andante | 10:04 | Arthur Honegger |
Symphony No. 1 C major | ||
Allegro marcato | 06:22 | Arthur Honegger |
Adagio | 10:53 | Arthur Honegger |
Presto – Andante tranquillo | 07:48 | Arthur Honegger |
Sinfonieorchester Basel – Schubert Symphony No. 3 and No. 5
Artists: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Title: Franz Schubert – Symphony No.3 and No. 5
Catalogue No.: SOB 01
Release: 24.09.2012
Description
The Basel Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonieorchester Basel) is one of Switzerland’s major orchestras and appears both in concert and at the opera house. For decades it has produced a wide array of highlights under the batons of such conductors as Felix Weingartner, Hans Münch, Moshe Atzmon, Matthias Bamert, Gary Bertini, Pierre Boulez, Armin Jordan, Nello Santi, Mario Venzago and Walter Weller. Its CD recordings of the music of Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel, Klaus Huber, Luigi Nono and Othmar Schoeck have received great international acclaim and many awards. ‘A Different Schumann’, for example, was awarded the Golden Tuning Fork from the German music industry.
Today the Basel Symphony Orchestra numbers among Switzerland’s
leading musical ensembles, with some 100 highly qualified and highly
motivated musicians. Its broad repertoire ranges effortlessly from the
Viennese classics and to contemporary music. Whether in the concert hall or the opera house, at home or on its domestic and foreign tours, this internationally varied group of musicians constantly demonstrates ist unique flexibility and artistic prowess.
One of the orchestra’s wishes came true in the 2009-10 season when ist leadership was taken over by the renowned American conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies.
Tracklist
Symphony No. 3 D major D 200 | ||
Adagio maestoso – Allegro con brio | 09:07 | Franz Schubert |
Allegretto | 03:53 | Franz Schubert |
Menuetto: Vivace | 04:15 | Franz Schubert |
Presto vivace | 04:39 | Franz Schubert |
Symphony No. 5 B flat major D 485 | ||
Allegro | 07:54 | Franz Schubert |
Andante con moto | 09:51 | Franz Schubert |
Menuetto: Allegro molto | 05:18 | Franz Schubert |
Allegro vivace | 05:21 | Franz Schubert |
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