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Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2016)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 17 Jun 2022 14:55:30

Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2016)

Following his critically acclaimed recording of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.2, Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado returns with Symphonies Nos.3 and 4, this time leading the Freiburger Barockorchester. Both works have origins in the composer’s 1829- 1831 tour of Europe. Symphony No.3, sometimes called the “Scottish” symphony, was inspired by a visit to the ruined Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh in 1829. It was not completed until 1842, making it, chronologically, the last of his five symphonies. Symphony No.4, called the “Italian” symphony, was born of the color and atmosphere of Italy, and was completed in Berlin in 1833.

By chance, while reviewing Pablo Heras-Casado’s new Mendelssohn disc, I happened to catch a broadcast of him conducting the San Francisco Symphony in the Scottish Symphony. The interpretation was naturally fairly similar: a straight-down-the-middle approach, not setting out to score points off the music. Nevertheless, the comparison between that and this new disc demonstrated the point of recording these ever-popular works on period instruments, bringing to them a pared-back sound world, with bouncy string basses and gently gurgling woodwinds. The broadcast, with a full-fat band, also seemed (at least on the kitchen radio) more outgoing. There’s a sense here, especially in the Scottish, that he’s holding back; and yes, come the more contrapuntally involved or more descriptive passages, it’s as if he’s suddenly let the players off the leash and the whole thing shifts into a higher gear.

Heras-Casado and his musicians spin an atmosphere in the Scottish that would make Walter Scott proud – you could imagine them being the Fort William Baroque Orchestra rather than the Freiburg. They build a slow movement of gathering intensity, just as they do in the religious procession of the corresponding movement of the Italian. Here the mists part and the Mediterranean sun glints through the textures (although, for an opposing view, sample Thomas Fey’s reading of the work on Hänssler Classic – altogether more troubled, as if he imagined Mendelssohn had visited Italy during a series of rainstorms). Nevertheless, again Heras-Casado seems happiest in slower music, falling just shy of locating the sense of unbridled joy that, for example, John Eliot Gardiner brings to his Italian (DG, 5/99).

There’s lots of Mendelssohnian activity at the moment, with symphonic explorations in various stages of completion by both Gardner (Chandos) and Gardiner (LSO Live), among others. There’s much to enjoy here, though, and the major selling-point is the wonderful sound made by this German band under their Spanish conductor.

Review by David Threasher, Gramophone

Felix Mendelssohn at Allmusic
Felix Mendelssohn at Wiki

Pablo Heras-Casado at Allmusic
Pablo Heras-Casado at Wiki

Tracklist:

Symphony No.3 'Scottish’, Op.56:
01. I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato (16:11)
02. II. Vivace non troppo (04:28)
03. III. Adagio (09:45)
04. IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro assai (09:55)

Symphony No.4 'Italian’, Op.90
05. I. Allegro vivace (10:29)
06. II. Andante con moto (05:07)
07. III. Con moto moderato (06:16)
08. IV. Presto and Finale: Saltarello (05:20)

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