{"id":1303,"date":"2002-09-20T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/plaadid\/arvo-part-summa-paavo-jarvi-emi-records-ltd-virgin-classics-2002\/"},"modified":"2002-09-27T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2002-09-27T06:02:18","slug":"arvo-part-summa-paavo-jarvi-emi-records-ltd-virgin-classics-2002","status":"publish","type":"plaadid","link":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/records\/arvo-part-summa-paavo-jarvi-emi-records-ltd-virgin-classics-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"ARVO P\u00c4RT – Summa. Paavo J\u00e4rvi. EMI Records Ltd \/ Virgin Classics 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMI Records Ltd \/ Virgin Classics\u00a02002<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
\nConductor PAAVO J\u00c4RVI<\/p>\n

ARVO P\u00c4RT (1935)<\/h3>\n

1. “Summa” for string orchestra (5:01)
\n2. “Trisagion” for string orchestra\u00a0 (14:51)
\n3.-5. Symphony No. 3 (24:31)
\n6. “Fratres” for string orchestra\u00a0and percussion (9:30)
\n7. “Silouans Song” for string orchestra\u00a0 (5:49)
\n8. “Festina lente” for string orchestra\u00a0 and harp (6:27)
\n9. “Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten” for string orchestra\u00a0and bell (6:49)<\/p>\n

Total:\u00a073:04<\/p>\n

REVIEWS<\/h1>\n

“A meatier P\u00e4rt than we usually hear, and a dramatic version of the Third Symphony that should win him many converts. With Arvo P\u00e4rt the terms of comparison normally used for focusing differences between this or that recording tend to fall redundant. P\u00e4rt\u2019s mature music responds most readily to luminous textures, carefully timed silences and mastery of line, and only rarely to the more subjective impulses of dramatic conducting. Which isn\u2019t to say that there aren\u2019t significant differences between various recordings of his works.<\/p>\n

One in particular struck me afresh listening to this excellent new recording of the Third Symphony. Towards the end of the second movement, P\u00e4rt scores an accelerating sequence of timpani strokes, brilliantly reported here. However, turn to Paavo J\u00e4rvi\u2019s father Neeme on his DG recording and the quickening strokes are accompanied by a quieter ostinato (also on timps), something which doesn\u2019t happen either here or on Neeme J\u00e4rvi\u2019s earlier BIS recording.<\/p>\n

Paavo\u2019s performance of the first movement suggests urgent parallels with the fraught confrontations in Nielsen\u2019s Fifth (also the first movement). And, as David Nice rightly remarks in an unusually perceptive booklet note, there is more than a hint of \u2018the spring water purity of Sibelius\u2019s Sixth Symphony\u2019 in the finale. Everywhere one senses the hovering spectre of early music (\u2018Perotinitis\u2019, as I heard myself say) but this Third Symphony is the ideal stepping stone for first-timers who wish to journey from standard symphonic fare to P\u00e4rt\u2019s cloistered tintinnabulation.<\/p>\n

Another major contrast emerges between Paavo J\u00e4rvi\u2019s broad and dynamic account of Trisagion and the lighter, more incisive and significantly swifter Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra version (11\u201953\u2019\u2019 as compared with j\u00e4rvi\u2019s 14\u201951\u2019\u2019). J\u00e4rvi\u2019s performance is less finely traced than that of Saulius Sondeckis but the dramatic denouement carries greater weight.
\nThe more familiar tintinnabulation pieces work very well, with J\u00e4rvi opting in the Cantus and Festina lente for warmer textures than some rivals, which usefully underlines P\u00e4rt\u2019s quietly cascading harmonies. There are those (including me) who will still prefer a more chaste sonority, the sort favoured on virtually all the ECM productions. But my guess is that Paavo J\u00e4rvi\u2019s more central approach will appeal to those who until now have heard in P\u00e4rt\u2019s music ascetic denial rather that quiet affirmation. Virgin\u2019s sound canvas is well judged, especially at the lower end of the spectrum. Recommended.”<\/p>\n

(Rob Cowan. <\/em>Gramophone<\/em><\/a>, 02.2003<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cAs throughout this disc, the playing of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is expressive but controlled, with beautiful string tone.\u201d
\nPerformance: ****
\nSound: ***<\/p>\n

(Stephen Johnson. BBC Music Magazine, 02.2003<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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“Choc de la musique”<\/p>\n

(Franck Mallet. Le Monde de la musique, 03.2003<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Interpretation: *****
\nKlang: ****<\/p>\n

(Tilman Urbach.\u00a0Fono Forum, 04.2003<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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