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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Vocal Symphonic Music
WDR Rundfunkchor · WDR Sinfonieorchester MICHAIL JUROWSKI
Dmitri Shostakovich is known for his symphonies, his chamber music, maybe the popular Suites, and to some extent even his film. Largely unknown, however, is his vocal symphonic music, of which only the cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79, has gained some wider popularity. Here these hidden gems are brought together in authoritative interpretations under Michail Jurowski and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne with its rich Shostakovich tradition under Semyon Bychkov and Rudolf Barshai, among others, from the Six Romances on words by Japanese poets to the Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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JULIAN WALDER - (R)-EVOLUTION
JULIAN WALDER, violin · ELIAS PRAXMARER, organ
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DOMENICO FERRARI
Artem Dzeganovskyi · Leonardo Gatti · Sonia Hrechorowicz
The name of Domenico Ferrari (1722-1780) was well known throughout Europe in the second half of the 18th century. He was considered one of the finest violin virtuosos as well as a sublime composer. One of Tartini’s best Italian pupils, Ferrari quickly gained fame first at the imperial court in Vienna and later at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart. After his successful debut at the Concert Spirituel in Paris in 1754, he was granted a ten-year royal privilege to publish his works in France, where he remained until the end of his life, never to return to his native Piacenza. During his stay in Paris, Ferrari published six sets of sonatas for violin with continuo. His Op. 3, featured on this CD, dates back to 1760 and consists of six sonatas. These works showcase a blend of late Baroque and Classical characteristics.
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Jazz Suites
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Steven Sloane · MDR Sinfonieorchester · Dmitrij Kitajenko
Dmitri Shostakovich is first and foremost known for his symphonies and string quartets – works that contain some humor, but even more darkness, brooding, and desolation. But there is the jaunty side of the great composer, too, and nowhere does it come to its cheerful fore than in these works, the Jazz Suites, the Tahiti Trot, and his Ballet Suites. This set, accompanying Capriccio’s boxes of Shostakovich’s Symphonies, Film Music, Orchestral Songs, and Chamber Music, is rounded out with two concertos. In the playful Piano Concerto, that humorous side comes through in the many quotations of songs, own works, and Beethoven. Only the grim Violin Concerto, held back, like the 4th Symphony, for fear of retribution, offers no smile.
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Charles Koechlin
Patricia Petibon Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen · Ariane Matiakh
It took almost 100 years for Charles Koechlin’s First Symphony to get a proper recording and over a year for Ariane Matiakh to prepare the material. After her highly praised recording of Koechlin’s Seven Stars Symphony (C5449), this is a much-appreciated further foray into the largely unexplored symphonic world of this fascinating composer, a French Chameleon of sorts, who felt comfortable anywhere between Bachian counterpoint and the heights of French impressionism. The earlier Au loin, Poème symphonique and 3 Mélodies (orchestrated posthumously) round out the scintillating picture.
