HR-SINFONIEORCHESTER

One symphony is not a symphony at all - the other is one of the most famous of all! Stravinsky's Symphony for Wind Instruments bears only this name, so you may be surprised. Dvořák's symphony ‘From the New World’, on the other hand: Music that grips every listener and captures them completely. Dvořák's 9th Symphony was composed in New York. Although the New World has left its mark on this music, it remains true Bohemian Romanticism. The succinct cor anglais solo in the Adagio contributed to its enormous popularity. It is as catchy as it is simple - and therefore a far cry from what Igor Stravinsky placed on the desks of the woodwind and brass players in his ‘Symphonies d'instruments à vent’. The music is rhythmically sharp, melodically incisive - and everything is brought to the point with the precision of the early 20th century. Thierry Escaich, the ‘Composer in Residence’ of the hr-Sinfonieorchester, also gets to the heart of the matter when he categorises his 2nd Cello Concerto ‘Les chants de l'aube’: He sees it as an aria - and in the style that is reminiscent of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
(hr-Sinfonieorchester - Frankfurt Radio Symphony)