Smetana: Overture Prodaná nevěsta
Martinů: Symphony N.4 (1945)
Dvořák: Cello Concerto op.104
Julia Hagen – Cello
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Mahler: Lieder (Welte-Mignon Piano rolls and soprano)
Mahler: Symphony N.4
Johanna Wallroth – Soprano
The 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...
Read MOREPhilipp von Steinaecker, a conductor of clear gesture and deep musical thought, impressed with an agile, highly animated approach which—stripped of all artifice—revealed a background closely linked to historically informed performance practice. This translated into readings attentive to detail, without...
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