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Ruth Killius, Thomas Zehetmair & Royal Northern Sinfonia - Bartók / Casken / Beethoven (2023)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 27 Jul 2024 16:12:14

This powerful New Series album represents “a résumé and a departure” for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for bringing compelling new music into the repertoire and for insightful performances of classical and modern composition, qualities very much in evidence on this concert recording from The Sage, Gateshead. The album opens with John Casken’s double concerto That Subtle Knot, written in 2012-3 for Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and the Northern Sinfonia. Inspired by the poetry of John Donne, the composition establishes a broad arc between the English Renaissance and music of today. Ruth Killius shines in a revelatory performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto, and Zehetmair as conductor fully brings out what liner note writer Giselher Schubert describes as “the juggernaut propulsive thrust” of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

AllMusic Review by James Manheim
This release captures a 2014 concert by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the last one conducted by Thomas Zehetmair. The notes explain that the program is intended as "a résumé and a departure," terms that could apply both to the program's relationship to Zehetmair's tenure and, in different ways, to the works on the program. Zehetmair ends his music directorship with a bang, with a sharp, intense Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op. 67. His wife, violist Ruth Killius, contributes an unusually dark Bartók Viola Concerto before that, giving the Beethoven special impetus. Perhaps the most intriguing performance, and the one most in tune with the ECM label's usual ethos, is the opening That Subtle Knot, a double concerto by John Casken. The title comes from John Donne, and one movement of the work uses the violin and viola to depict a pair of lovers on a riverbank. The harmonic language is modern, but there are hints of the Renaissance and of old folk song. The program, as a whole, does exemplify the fresh programming Zehetmair brought to this ensemble, and it makes a fine tribute. No explanation is forthcoming as to why nine years were required to bring it out (the album appeared in 2023), but one may be grateful that it finally appeared.

Tracklist:
1. Casken: That Subtle Knot - I. Calm (15:21)
2. Casken: That Subtle Knot - II. Floating (11:09)
3. Bartók: Viola Concerto, Sz. 120 - I. Moderato (Compl. Serly) (13:27)
4. Bartók: Viola Concerto, Sz. 120 - II. Adagio religioso - Allegretto (Compl. Serly) (3:47)
5. Bartók: Viola Concerto, Sz. 120 - III. Allegro vivace (Compl. Serly) (4:31)
6. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - I. Allegro con brio (6:50)
7. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - II. Andante con moto (8:20)
8. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - III. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio (4:48)
9. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - IV. Allegro (10:33)

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