5/10/2023 0 Comments How music works review![]() ![]() This week’s other pickĪlso from Erato comes the latest of John Nelson’s Berlioz recordings with the Strasbourg Philharmonic, devoted to the dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette. Despite a few rough edges, the Insula performances of all the pieces here demonstrate vividly how much they believe in the quality of this music too. The Third Symphony, first performed at a Conservatoire concert in 1849, is unquestionably the finest work here as Equilbey shows, it’s a work of tremendous energy and verve, with stylistic links to Farrenc’s German counterparts certainly, but also with a flavour that’s distinctly its own. Her orchestral writing may not be as quirky and wildly imaginative as that of her contemporary Berlioz, who was a great admirer of her music, but at its best in the symphonies it easily stands comparison with the equivalent works by Schumann and Mendelssohn. Those five works are more than enough to fix Farrenc’s position as a distinctive and significant voice in 19th-century French music. ![]()
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