{"id":4602,"date":"2012-09-01T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T14:33:20","slug":"cd-review-the-arts-desk-graham-rickson-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2012\/09\/01\/cd-review-the-arts-desk-graham-rickson-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- The Arts Desk, Graham Rickson on Bobby and Hans vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new review from critic Graham Rickson \u00a0this week at The Arts Desk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartsdesk.com\/classical-music\/classical-cds-weekly-g%C3%A1l-schumann-shostakovich-tiomkin\" target=\"_blank\">is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AV2231\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdt.co.uk\/MDTSite\/product\/\/AV2231.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from MDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Hans-Gal-Symphony-No-Schumann\/dp\/B0071GPGAA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334689051&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0071GPGAA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpts:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;An Austrian Jew who eventually settled in Edinburgh and achieved fame as an academic, G\u00e1l\u2019s early renown came through composition. His final symphony was completed in 1974 but &#8211; intensely personal, elegiac, nostalgic music, and completely out of step with the times &#8211; it could have been written 80 years before. G\u00e1l saw himself as part of the Austro-German tradition, and his last symphony achieves a Haydnesque clarity and concision. It\u2019s sparely scored for a classical orchestra, and you\u2019re reminded of Richard Strauss\u2019s similarly anachronistic final works&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The restraint of the G\u00e1l is intelligently coupled with Schumann\u2019s Symphony No 2. There are no reservations at all about the playing of the Orchestra of the Swan under Kenneth Woods. Good chamber orchestras can make Schumann sound lighter, fresher, leaner \u2013 there\u2019s plenty of definition and lightness here. Woods manages to make the first movement\u2019s obsessive triple time rhythm sound like music instead of a stuck record, and the Scherzo has the requisite bounce. There\u2019s plenty of stoic melancholy in the Adagio, but not enough to derail the symphony\u2019s emotional trajectory. Excellent, in other words.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2012\/09\/01\/cd-review-the-arts-desk-graham-rickson-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new review from critic Graham Rickson \u00a0this week at The Arts Desk is available here. Click here to order from MDT Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk Click here to order from Amazon.com Excerpts: &#8220;An Austrian Jew who eventually settled in Edinburgh and achieved fame as an academic, G\u00e1l\u2019s early renown came through composition. 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