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Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Sjoerd Staal — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:00:56 +0000

This recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under its Music Director Paavo Järvi, is the first in a complete cycle of Mahler symphonies. Järvi has of course conducted Mahler’s works many times in his career, but has waited for the right moment to record the complete cycle in the studio: the right moment not only in his life as a musician but also in his relationship with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; the maturity and power revealed in the orchestra’s recordings for Alpha Classics have been hailed by the music press since 2019.

“Mahler truly opened up a new universe with the Fifth, in which he initiated an incredibly personal style of music-making.” says Paavo Järvi. “It is the very nature of its opening — a military funeral — and of its tragedy, in conjunction with the very idea of beginning a symphony in this way, which signals that something completely different is in store for us”.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi- Music Director
Ivo Gass- Horn Solo

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Original Version)

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:00:32 +0000

Following their recordings of Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 (awarded ‘best symphonic recording of the year’ at the International Classical Music Awards), Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich conclude their tribute to the Austrian composer in this bicentenary year with a recording of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony.

The orchestra’s history has been closely linked to Bruckner since it gave the first Swiss performance of one of his symphonies under Richard Strauss in 1903. “The great classical and romantic tradition of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich make it ideally suited to Bruckner, the central composer for modern symphony orchestras,” says Paavo Jarvi. Bruckner composed this musical farewell (he wrote the words “a farewell to life” in the score) in his final years; legend has it that he was still working on the symphony on the day he died.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich
Paavo Jarvi, Conductor

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Jüri Reinvere: Ship of Fools

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:00:23 +0000

Ship Of Fools features Paavo Järvi conducting the Estonian Festival Orchestra. It is Exclusively Available at NativeDSD in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128 and DSD 64.

The album begins with And tired from happiness, they started to dance, in which feverish rhythms are followed by moments of ecstasy. Debussy’s music here comes to mind, as does the glistening brass in Bruckner’s symphonies.

This is followed by a playful double concerto for flute — Reinvere had studied the flute, and it was thanks to this that he was able to join a military band instead of fighting in the Soviet army.

On the ship of fools is inspired by the key phrase of a 16th-century novel: Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur (The world seeks to be deceived, therefore let it be deceived). “People deceive each other on Facebook and Instagram”, comments Reinvere, whose music is both heady and troubling.

Jüri Reinvere, born in Tallinn in 1971, is an Estonian composer with a passion for theology and psychology; he has also written poetry. His collaboration with Paavo Järvi began in Pärnu, the birthplace of the Estonian Festival Orchestra, in 2016.

Paavo Järvi, Conductor
Estonian Festival Orchestra

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Mendelssohn: Symphonies [4-Album Cycle]

David Hopkins — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:09 +0000

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Mendelssohn: Symphonies – Vol. 4

Sjoerd Staal — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:00:30 +0000

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“I don’t think Mendelssohn gets the attention he deserves,” said Paavo Järvi at the start of the 2020-2021 season. Faced with this observation, he undertook to record a complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s orchestral works with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra for his second season as Music Director.

On the program are the composer’s five symphonies, including the second, known as ‘Lobgesang’, half-symphony, half-cantata, with the participation of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, tenor Patrick Grahl and sopranos Chen Reiss and Marie Henriette Reinhold.

Finally, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , based on Shakespeare’s play, the overture to which Mendelssohn composed when he was just 17, concludes this very fine cycle.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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Mendelssohn: Symphonies – Vol. 3

Sjoerd Staal — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:00:31 +0000

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Finally, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , based on Shakespeare’s play, the overture to which Mendelssohn composed when he was just 17, concludes this very fine cycle.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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Mendelssohn: Symphonies – Vol. 1

Sjoerd Staal — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:00:33 +0000

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Finally, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , based on Shakespeare’s play, the overture to which Mendelssohn composed when he was just 17, concludes this very fine cycle.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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Mendelssohn: Symphonies – Vol. 2

Sjoerd Staal — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:00:31 +0000

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Finally, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , based on Shakespeare’s play, the overture to which Mendelssohn composed when he was just 17, concludes this very fine cycle.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 7

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

“I have heard more nonsense about the seventh and eighth symphonies than about any of my other work. Strange, how persistent these stupidities are. At times, I am amazed at how lazy people are when it comes to thinking. Everything that was written about this symphony during the first few days is still repeated unchanged to this day. Surely there has been enough time to think about it.” Evidently, Dmitri Shostakovich felt a strong urge, decades after composing his Symphony No. 7, to prompt listeners (and probably musicians as well) to think carefully about its true significance: for his seventh symphony was surrounded by more than enough ambiguity and unilateral propaganda.

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