Mariss Jansons, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Arthur Honegger: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 "Ligurgique"; Pacific 231 (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 57:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 5 55122 2 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 57:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 5 55122 2 | Recorded: 1993
The Oslo Philharmonic is a world-class orchestra, and the playing in these two Honegger symphonies is superlative. Mariss Jansons conducts with real concentration and control; his attention to matters of detail and balance serves the longer-term expressive and symphonic concerns, while the recording allows the full range of the music to be experienced. Both these great symphonies date from the war years, the Second from the dark days when Honegger lived through the occupation of Paris, the Third from 1945. In his Second Symphony the string orchestra is joined in the closing bars by a single trumpet sounding a chorale of hope; and in Jansons’s performance this image emerges naturally from the resolution of the conflicts and the strenuous rhythmic activity which have come before.