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CRITIQUES REVIEWS first and last movements are enormously dramatic and powerful while the inner movements are more lyrical. Unusual in a large choral work from this period, there is very little contrapuntal writing except in the final Amen. Neeme Järvi has the measure of the work and leads an outstanding performance. One of the essentials of the piece is to keep it moving—somewhat counter-intuitive given the subject matter—and he does just that. In the outside movements he builds tremendous climaxes and elsewhere finds lightness where the music requires it. Among the soloists, tenor Peter Auty is very good indeed, especially in his solo “Fac me vere tecum flere.” All the performers sound committed and inspired and the LPO Choir responds superbly to Järvi’s authoritative direction. PAUL E. ROBINSON Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Op. 100/The Year 1941 Op. 90 Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop Naxos 8.573029 (59 min 48 s) HHHHII Brazil has been forging ahead in recent years as an economic powerhouse, and on the evidence of this recording its musical life is not far behind. The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra is a first-rate ensemble and under its new music director, American Marin Alsop, it is sure to become better known within a short time. Just recently it made its first appearance at the Proms. Homebase for Alsop is the Baltimore Symphony, with whom she has already made many recordings, but by all accounts she will be commuting to Brazil on a regular basis. She leads an exciting and powerful performance of Prokofiev’s familiar Fifth Symphony. The brass and percussion will lift you out of your seat—watch out for that tam-tam—but the winds and strings make stylish and expressive contributions too. The filler piece is the all but unknown The Year 1941, which evokes the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union early in World War II. It was not well-received at its first performance and there seems to be no reason to change that judgement. Lots of patriotic fervor but little musical substance. PAUL E. ROBINSON DVD Music is the Language of the Soul: A Portrait of Mariss Jansons; Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” Ricarda Merbeth, soprano; Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons C Major DVD Unitel Classica 709708 (142 min) HHHHII Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons turns 70 next year, and for a conductor, that means he is in his prime. He is the music director of two of the world’s great orchestras—the Royal Concertgebouw and the Bavarian Radio Symphony—and his performances these days are consistently mature and unaffected. That is certainly the case here with a Mahler Second that is faithful to virtually every marking in Mahler’s score while being dramatic and inspiring. Jansons is never ‘over the top’ in the Bernstein manner but he has a sure sense of how to build a climax and how to achieve just the right orchestral colour for every moment of the score. In that sense he is more like his mentor Herbert von Karajan. There are two DVDs in this album and the first of them is devoted to a documentary about Jansons. We see him visiting old haunts in Riga and St. Petersburg, but Jansons comes across as somewhat selfeffacing and reserved. Perhaps it is the fault of director Robert Neumüller that he was not able to get the conductor to reveal more of himself. PAUL E. ROBINSON 42 AVRIL/MAI 2013 APRIL/MAY
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