Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)
Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 64:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 / Naïve | # OPS 2030 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 64:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 / Naïve | # OPS 2030 | Recorded: 1993
Lobgesang, Mendelssohn's ''Hymn of Praise'', is no longer a rarity on disc, with a dozen versions listed. That makes it timely that Spering, following up the success of Herreweghe's Harmonia Mundi version of Elijah (4/94), here presents a performance in period style. When the composer's preference for fast speeds is well documented, and has so convincingly been followed up by his latterday successor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kurt Masur, it is perhaps surprising that Spering is far more relaxed in his choice of tempos. His overall timing—64'48'' as against Masur's 58'32''—shows what a wide discrepancy there is, and in no way does he let the music drag or become sentimental. For with clean, crisp textures this is a most refreshing performance, full of incidental beauties, of a work that for several generations was regarded as too sweet on the one hand, over-inflated on the other. Spering's clean directness and his obvious affection for the music reverses that jaundiced judgement.
In the main Allegro of the first movement as well as in the opening section of the big choral cantata-finale, Spering's speeds are actually faster than Masur's and similarly refreshing. The rest is different, not just slower in its speeds, but more relaxed and often more affectionate. I have never heard the duet for the two soprano soloists, ''Ich harrete des Herrn'' (''I waited on the Lord''), sound quite so beautiful, with Soile Isokoski (also in Herreweghe's Elijah) and Mechthild Bach both angelically sweet yet nicely contrasted.
The tenor soloist too, Frieder Lang, is exceptionally sweet-toned, reminding me at times of Ian Partridge in his honeyed lyricism. His projection is then keen enough to make the ''Huter, ist die Nacht bald hin?'' (''Watchman, what of the night?'') episode very intense and dramatic. The chorus, as recorded in a warm acoustic, is not always ideally clear in inner definition, but the freshness of the singing matches that of the whole performance. Anyone attracted by the advance of period performance into the nineteenth-century repertory should certainly not miss this, nor for that matter, anyone who has been dismissing this choral symphony. It may not live up to the ambition of following in the tracks of Beethoven's Ninth, but as Spering among others shows, it has much charm and strength.–Edward Greenfield
Performer:
Soile Isokoski, soprano I
Mechthild Bach, soprano II
Frieder Lang, tenor
Chorus Musicus Köln
Das Neue Orchester
Christoph Spering, conductor
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major ("Lobgesang", "Hymn of Praise"), Op. 52
01. Allegro maestoso e vivace
02. Allegro un poco agitato
03. Adagio religioso
04. Alles was odem hat, lobe den herrn
05. Lobe den herrn meine seele
06. Sagt es, die ihr erlöset seid
07. Er zählet unsre tränen
08. Sagt es, die ihr erlöset seid
09. Ich harrete des herrn
10. Stricke des todes hatten uns umfangen
11. Wir riefen in der finsternis
12. Die nacht ist vergangen!
13. Nun danket alle gott
14. Lob, ehr and preis sei gott
15. Drum sing' ich mit meinem leide
16. Ihr völker, bringet her dem herrn ehre und macht
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Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)
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