Released digitally in the spring, this program took months to materialize on CD. This is one of the best releases by a young generation conductor in this type of repertoire for a very long time. The program, conceptual but not pedantic, mixes love and death. In fact, with the weight on the CD of Totenfeier (initial version of 1er movement of the 2e Symphony Mahler) and Death and Transfiguration of Strauss, death quite obviously takes over. But these are not simple juxtapositions. Love and death are obviously intertwined in Prelude and Death of Isoldebut the chaining of theadagietto of the 5e Symphony of Mahler and Death and Transfiguration is also very skilfully realized and interesting. Jakub Hrůša, the most interesting guest conductor during the Nagano era, did not develop an ongoing relationship with the OSM and that’s a shame: the sound culture he imprinted on the Bamberg Orchestra and the intelligence of the dramatic arcs appear, in his best record, more than remarkable.
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