Honegger Pastorale Symphony 4 Une Cantate De Noel
Jurowski Vladimir Lpo
Honegger Pastorale Symphony 4 Une Cantate De Noel
Jurowski Vladimir Lpo
Catalogue # LPO0058
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 28 March 2007 (Pastorale d’été and Symphony No. 4) and 5 December 2009 (Une Cantate de Noël).
Today the Swiss-born composer Arthur Honegger is often remembered as a member of ‘Les Six’ – that embodiment of 1920s Parisian modernism. But far from rejecting late Romantic expression, Honegger embraced it. In these live concert recordings, Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in three of Honegger’s most lyrical works: the dreamy Pastorale d’été, the nostalgic Fourth Symphony, subtitled ‘The Delights of Basel’ in remembrance of the sanctuary offered by the Swiss city during the war, and his final composition, the reflective and heartfelt Cantate de Noël.
‘Of course, anything conducted by Vladimir Jurowski is worth hearing. His galvanising effect on the band whose Principal Conductor he will shortly become was evident again here, notably in the beguiling, brushed-velvet textures he conjured in Honegger’s Pastoral d’été … and in an immaculate ensemble and textural clarity everywhere.’ Richard Morrison, The Times, March 2007
Vladimir Jurowski became the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s twelfth Principal Conductor in September 2007 and this CD is the latest in his ever-growing catalogue with the LPO on its own label, adding to his recent critically acclaimed recordings of Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brahms Symphonies 1 & 2 and Holst’s Planets.
Honegger: Pastorale d'été
Symphony No. 4 ‘Deliciae Basilienses’
Une cantate de Noël
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir & New London Children’s Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
Review
Evan Meagher
The London Philharmonic’s newest release under conductor Vladimir Juroswki is a series of live recordings of works by Arthur Honegger. In the liner notes we are admonished against thinking of Honegger primarily as a member of Les Six. After enjoying the music on this disc, I feel appropriately corrected. The major works here date from some decades after Honegger’s association with that group of French composers. He has retained from that period a clear interest in mining tradition for lessons in structure, melody and rhythm, but, while these works are inventive and colourful, they have none of the emotional detachment or irony typical of the French movement. They are, rather, deeply personal and at times quite romantic. The Cantate de Nöel is at once dark and jubilant, brilliantly original and immediately accessible. Great music and flawless, spirited performances.
Evan Meagher is from Readings Hawthorn
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