Dvorák: Serenade For Winds; Janacek, Enescu / Oslo Soloists

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Release Date: 04/11/2000
Label: Naxos Catalog #: 8554173 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Antonín Dvorák, Leos Janácek, George Enescu
Orchestra/Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists

Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 1 Hours 0 Mins.

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Notes & Reviews	Back to Top

This is good. Very good. Not only does this disc offer an imaginative array of first-class wind music, the performances are well nigh ideal. Dvorák's Serenade has just the right "outdoors" quality, a freshness of rhythm and, in the slow movement, a lyrical serenity that's totally delightful. Better still, the recording captures the work perfectly: not so close that we're serenaded by clicking valves and gasping musicians, not so far that the distinctive wind timbres congeal into a sonic fog. Better still, the horns are ideally balanced and integrated into the ensemble, rather than positioned as a trio of soloists in their own acoustic (as so often happens). Georges Enescu's Dixtuor is an elusive masterwork, and the Oslo players clarify its complex but luminous textures by stressing the music's gentle, bittersweet lyricism. I've never heard it sound so purposeful or so melodically appealing. As for "Youth", Janácek's 70th birthday present to himself--well, it sounds as buoyant and vivacious as its title, the crucial writing for low instruments (bassoon and bass clarinet) being captured with special vividness. This is a disc that you will want to listen to again and again, and I can't recommend it highly enough. --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com


Works on This Recording		Back to Top

1.	Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44 by Antonín Dvorák
	Orchestra/Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists Period: Romantic Written: 1878; Bohemia


2.	Youth by Leos Janácek
	Orchestra/Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists Period: 20th Century Written: 1924; Brno, Czech Republic


3.	Decet for Winds in D major, Op. 14 by George Enescu
	Orchestra/Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists Period: 20th Century Written: 1906; Romania


Sound Samples				Back to Top

Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 I. Moderato, quasi marcia
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 II. Minuetto
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 III. Andante con moto
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 IV. Allegro molto
Decet, Op. 14 I. Doucement mouvemente
Decet, Op. 14 II. Moderement
Decet, Op. 14 III. Allegrement, mais pas trop vif
Mladi (Youth), JW VII/10 I. Allegro
Mladi (Youth), JW VII/10 II. Andante sostenuto
Mladi (Youth), JW VII/10 III. Vivace
Mladi (Youth), JW VII/10 IV. Allegro animato

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