STRAUSS’ TONEDIKT
Oslo-Filharmonien og Vasily Petrenko presenterer den første utgivelsen i en serie med innspillinger av Richard Strauss’ orkestermusikk. På denne CD-en presenteres lytteren for de monumentale tonediktene «Also Sprach Zarathustra» og «Ein Heldenleben»; verker som OFO har en lang historie med å fremføre i inn- og utland. Vasily Petrenko, som har vært orkestrets sjefdirigent siden 2013, utnytter den særegne intensiteten i orkestrets spillestil til fulle i fremføringen av denne spennende og virtuose musikken.
Vasily Petrenko er en av de mest signifikante musikerne av i dag, og han har høstet mye ros og vunnet priser for sine innspillinger av det russiske repertoaret, bl.a. to Gramophone Awards. Med Oslo-Filharmonien har han spilt inn verker av Sjostakovitsj, Szymanowski, Strauss og Prokofjev, i tillegg til en stor, ny syklus med orkesterverker av Aleksandr Skrjabin.
Oslo-Filharmonien så dagens lys i 1919, og i løpet av det neste halve hundreåret vokste orkestrets renommé jevnt og trutt. I 1979 overtok Mariss Jansons dirigentstaven, og under hans ledelse nådde OFO sitt fulle potensiale som en verdig konkurrent til de store filharmoniske orkestrene i Wien, Berlin og New York.
PETRENKO AND THE OSLO PHILHARMONIC PRESENT STRAUSS’ TONE POEMS
The Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko present the first of a new series of recordings of Richard Strauss' orchestral music.
This first release features the great tone poems “Also Sprach Zarathustra” and “Ein Heldenleben”, both works the Oslo Philharmonic has a long history of performing at home and abroad. Vasily Petrenko, chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic since 2013, exploits the special intensity of the orchestra's string sound and its magnificent wind and brass sections to full effect in this thrillingly virtuosic music.
Vasily Petrenko is one of the most significant and galvanizing musicians alive, and has won numerous accolades for his recordings of Russian repertoire, including two Gramophone awards. With the Oslo Philharmonic, he has recorded works by Shostakovich, Szymanowski, Strauss and Prokofiev, as well as a major cycle of orchestral works by Alexander Scriabin.
The Oslo Philharmonic was born in 1919 and over the next half-century, the orchestra’s reputation grew steadily. In 1979, it changed forever with the arrival of a young Latvian arriving in Norway, Mariss Jansons, who transformed it to rival the great Philharmonics of Vienna, Berlin and New York.
ANMELDELSER / REVIEWS
"For their first recording project since their critically-acclaimed Scriabin cycle, Petrenko and his Norwegian orchestra embark on a new Strauss series on LAWO with two great tone-poems from the 1890s; reviewing a live performance of Also sprach in 2016, BachTrack observed that ‘Nietzsche may have proclaimed that God is dead, but he reckoned without Petrenko. All of creation seemed to emanate from the man as he summoned vast worlds into being." Presto Classical, 19.04.2019
"As Petrenko’s tenure in Oslo begins to wind down, he revels in the standards of orchestral virtuosity he has attained with this excellent band in two Strauss tone poems that challenge all instrumental..."
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