Jan Valta, State Chamber Orchestra of Žilina - Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano; Martinů: Sinfonietta La Jolla (1994)
Jan Valta, State Chamber Orchestra of Žilina - Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano; Martinů: Sinfonietta La Jolla (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 200 Mb | Total time: 46:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Point Classics | # 2671852 | Recorded: 1994
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 200 Mb | Total time: 46:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Point Classics | # 2671852 | Recorded: 1994
Martinu's alternately bustlingly neo-classical and genially lyrical Sinfonietta La jolla (named after the Californian town whose Music Society commissioned it) is otherwise absent from the CD catalogue at present, and this lively account is welcome. It is one of his most relaxed works, approaching light music at times, especially in the circus-like exuberance of the finale, but the lyrical element continually returns and before the coda a string chorale is heard that more than hints at the luminous simplicity of the finest late Martinu. Valta's is a very good performance, marred only by the rather forward placing and somewhat atmosphere-less sound of the concertante piano and by a certain lack of warmth (La Jolla is distanced from the Pacific by a degree or two of latitude) in the violins.
I expected that the slight acidity of the string sound would bother me more in Respighi, but in fact it seems quite appropriate to the brilliance of palette that the triptych evokes, and it goes here with gleaming horn tone and brightly carolling woodwind. The problem is that Valta's tempos are often disappointingly slow: the joyous Provencal spring song in the first movement becomes a stamping slow march, Venus's scallop shell in the finale comes ashore rather cautiously. The details of Respighi's orchestration are always crisply clear and the performance makes up in vociferous enthusiasm some of what it lacks in energy, but Marriner's account (on EMI, with the more obvious coupling of Respighi's The Birds) has more vigour to it; and more light and shade: Valta and Opus seldom deliver a real pianissimo. Still, if the coupling attracts you and the Martinu is your main priority this newcomer is worth sampling.–Michael Oliver
Performer:
Marta Singerová, piano (4-6)
State Chamber Orchestra of Žilina
Jan Valta, conductor
Tracklist:
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Trittico Botticelliano
01. La primavera - Allegro vivace
02. L'Adorazione dei Magi - Andante lento
03. La Nascita di Venere - Allegro moderato
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Sinfonietta La Jolla
04. Poco allegro
05. Largo
06. Allegro
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Jan Valta, State Chamber Orchestra of Žilina - Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano; Martinů: Sinfonietta La Jolla (1994)
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