Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures - Abbado DG Collectors Edn 4 CD Box

Description: Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Karita Mattila (soprano), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Claudio Abbado Release Date: 11th Nov 2001 Catalogue No: 4714672 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Series: Collectors Edition Length: 4 hours 45 minutes "Abbado’s Mendelssohn, a Souvenir of His Best Work" - Classics Today"In No 1 he is tough and biting, slower and simpler in the second movement, returning to a tough, dark manner for the minuet and finale. The first movement of the Reformation finds Abbado in dramatic mood. In the Second Symphony the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in clarifying the big tuttis with choir, at the same time providing extra weight of sound. His three soloists are very fine and their tonal beauty and natural feeling for words and phrasing are a delight. So too is the singing of the London Symphony Chorus". When released it provided "the most centrally recommendable version of the Italian on CD". The overtures "too bring fresh and attractive performances, very fast and fleet in the fairy music of A Midsummer NightsDream. This was one of Abbado's biggest recording projects with the orchestra of which he was music director, and remains a richly rewarding legacy" – Gramophone Classical Music Guide."Abbado's collection remains one of the most generally recommendable available (of the overtures)...The famous pieces...sound strikingly vivid and spontaneous in Abbado's hands, and the recording, wide in range with plenty of ambience, suits the music admirably."— Penguin Guide.

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