Webern: Five movements for Strings op. 5
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Webern: Symphonie op. 21
Beethoven: Symphony N.8
Alena Baeva – violin
Brahms: Schicksalslied op. 54
Britten: Cello Symphony 0p.68
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30
Julia Hagen – cello
The sense of discovery charges up the entire performance making for edge-of-seat-listening that keeps the impact fresh. If you think Abbado, Haitink and Bernstein are enough for a Mahler Five in your library, do add this one. David Nice, BBC...
Read MOREThe name Philipp von Steinaecker is one to remember. (…) The polyphony of lament, rage, and despair—so vividly present, for example, in the first movement—here crashes over the listener in stirring complexity. Even the slightest gradations of dynamics, the most...
Read MORESteinaecker plays out this high-wire act with courage and conviction, pushing it to the very edge without ever letting the thread snap…. He and the MCO do not shy away from the abyssal shadows lurking beneath the supposed idyll, and...
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