Benjamin britten four sea interludes score

вЂњSunday MorningвЂќ features a daringly quick tempo, but the Cincinnati players rise effortlessly to the challenge. вЂњDawnвЂќ never drags but still preserves a certain dreaminess in its treatment of the brass chorales.

The Four Sea Interludes, which Britten never actually recorded in their concert versions, also reveal a strong sense of the conductorвЂ™s individuality while being played as persuasively as anyone ever has. This permits the music to make its didactic points without a trace of pedantry, and the final fugue combines raw excitement with exceptional textural clarity to an amazing degree.

Witness, for example, the atmospheric variations for horns, or harp, or the gutsy rhythms underpinning the violins. JГѓВ¤rvi insures that you hear the piece wholeвЂ“but more to the point, and also like the composer, he does it by paying great attention not just to the timbre of the highlighted instrument but equally to BrittenвЂ™s sensitive and imaginatively colored accompaniments. Often the work breaks up into individual bits, sounding too much as though the original narration is missing between the variations. It has similar energy and freshness, allied to similar continuity and flow. JГѓВ¤rvi without question offers the finest Young PersonвЂ™s Guide since BrittenвЂ™s own. So for the purposes of this review, I am limiting my comments to the standard stereo release. ItвЂ™s remarkable what variable results SACD technology still produces, even in the hands of the most experienced labels. In regular and SACD stereo the engineering is indeed stellar, but the multichannel version is curiously low-level and diffuse. Good as the sound is, and despite TelarcвЂ™s reputation for same, this disc is not noteworthy primarily for its sonics. This is a spectacular recording, not just in the вЂњblockbusterвЂќ sense of containing four big, splashy orchestral works, extremely well recorded, but also because Paavo JГѓВ¤rvi brings a real point of view to music that many listeners (with good reason) assume has been done to death.

Benjamin britten four sea interludes score