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Miaskovsky: Symphony No 6 / Järvi, Göteborgs Symfoniker


Release Date: 11/12/2002 
Label:  Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog #: 471655   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Nikolay Myaskovsky
Conductor:  Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra,  Gothenburg Symphony Chorus
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 5 Mins. 

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Neeme Järvi hurls himself full force into this brilliant, volatile music, conducting with passionate conviction and coaxing a stunning, virtuosic performance from the Gothenberg Symphony.

Nikolai Miaskovsky's Sixth is the most frequently performed of his 27 symphonies, although its familiarity among Western audiences remains relatively slight. A big, post-romantic work, it was considered out of step with the times when it appeared in 1923. With its re-occurring leitmotifs in all four movements, the symphony is steeped in Lisztian rhetoric lassoed to a dramatic thrust that suggests Rachmaninov (although Miaskovsky's range of influences includes Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and even César Franck). In overall sound Read more the piece most closely resembles the Scriabin of the Third Symphony.


The long first movement launches with six dramatic tutti chords. These are followed by an impetuously driven and densely chromatic allegro that alternates with more placid, diatonically melodic passages in a manner similar to Liszt's A Faust Symphony. After a tremendous climax, the movement ends in a mood of despairing resignation à la Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. Then after a rollicking scherzo (with a serene, pastoral trio reminiscent of Mahler's Sixth symphony), the beautiful Andante forms the symphony's emotional core as it emphatically brings together musical ideas previously introduced. The far-flung finale, which encompasses such diverse elements as a tarantella, French folk songs, and the Dies Irae, eventually winds up in an atmosphere of spiritual transcendence (again like the Faust symphony) as the chorus enters, solemnly intoning the sacred Russian chant "Of the Separation of the Soul from the Body".


Neeme Järvi hurls himself full force into this brilliant, volatile music, conducting with passionate conviction and coaxing a stunning, virtuosic performance from the Gothenberg Symphony. DG's spacious recording delivers it with satisfying clarity and impact. If you've never heard any Miaskovsky, this rewarding release makes a great place to start.
--Victor Carr Jr, ClassicsToday.com Read less

Works on This Recording

1. Symphony no 6 in E flat minor, Op. 23 "Revolutionary" by Nikolay Myaskovsky
Conductor:  Neeme Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra,  Gothenburg Symphony Chorus
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1922-1923; USSR 
 Date of Recording: 08/1998 
Venue:  Concert Hall, Gothenburg, Sweden 
Length: 64 Minutes 30 Secs. 
Language: Russian 

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