{"id":5900,"date":"2014-05-30T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2014-06-27T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:06:31","slug":"cd-review-classical-ear-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/05\/30\/cd-review-classical-ear-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- Classical Source on Bobby and Hans vol. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review from Colin Anderson, editor of Classical Source, for Bobby and Hans vol. 3<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/classicalsource.com\/db_control\/db_cd_review.php?id=11936\">\u00a0Read the whole thing here.<\/a>\u00a0A short excerpt follows<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bobby-and-Hans-vol-3-300x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>\nBuy your copy from Amazon here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=aviewfromthep-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00BGL3FKY&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=aviewfromthep-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00BGL3FKY&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Buy your copy from Amazon here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">G\u00e1l\u2019s Second Symphony (1943) opens solemnly with a chorale-like idea (English ears might find a stylistic correspondence to Gerald Finzi). This soulful \u2018Introduction: Andante \u2013 Adagio\u2019 not only establishes a deeply inviting invitation to listen but also the fine playing and vivid (if sometimes too bright) recording quality. Gal 2, leanly scored if with numerous attractive timbres, at once suggests the tension of wartime, and a wish to escape from it, which the rather perky scherzo-like second movement attempts to, conjuring the Vienna of Der Rosenkavalier, through neoclassical high spirits and contrasted with writing that is beguilingly pastoral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The heart of the Symphony is an extended (here 15-minute) Adagio, deeply felt and with a Brucknerian breadth, and given at a spacious tempo that Woods judges ideally, music of consolation written by a man of a generously lyrical spirit, himself Viennese and steeped in the music of his Austro-German forbears \u2013 not least Schumann \u2013 hence Woods\u2019s apposite couplings. This ineffably beautiful slow movement is followed by an equally lengthy finale, which opens in tense terms, suggesting sinister rumblings, the advancing of a foe&#8230;. I suggest that anyone who admires the output of Franz Schmidt, and who generally welcomes song, dance, deepness of human feeling and clarity in their music will find much to entrance and enlighten here. It is certainly good to have a choice of recordings for G\u00e1l 2, to compare and contrast, but Woods\u2019s version is the place to start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">And anyway, who would want to miss his Schumann cycle. These wonderful works have done really well in the recording studio over the decades, and Woods has stiff contemporary competition from such as Heinz Holliger and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin. However, this is music of assorted delights and possibilities, and Woods\u2019s view makes for good listening in its quick-footed approach that doesn\u2019t negate song elements and which allows for exciting quickening; the coda to the first movement is electrifying. Less quirky than its 1841 predecessor, Schumann\u2019s 10-year-later revision is tightly organised, something that Woods seizes upon, with splendid playing, but without overlooking those measures that require flexibility, a sense of fantasy, some tender loving care and, cueing the finale, a Wagnerian grandeur. In short, this thoughtfully considered account belongs in the Schumann 4 collection alongside Boult, Celibidache, Sawallisch (Dresden) and Szell &#8230; and it doesn\u2019t stop there!<\/span><\/p>\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\/2014\/05\/30\/cd-review-classical-ear-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-3-2\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;anyone&#8230;  who generally welcomes song, dance, deepness of human feeling and clarity in their music will find much to entrance and enlighten here. It is certainly good to have a choice of recordings for G\u00e1l 2, to compare and contrast, but Woods\u2019s version is the place to start&#8230;this thoughtfully considered account belongs in the Schumann 4 collection alongside Boult, Celibidache, Sawallisch (Dresden) and Szell&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[483,954,9],"tags":[454,707,365,479],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bobby-and-hans","category-headlines","category-newsandreviews","tag-classical-source","tag-colin-anderson","tag-hans-gal","tag-robert-schumann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}