Bevan/cbso/gardner - Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 3: Symphony No. 2 'Hymn of Praise' - Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This is the third recording in our Mendelssohn in Birmingham series, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor, Edward Gardner. The album features Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (Meeresstille und glxfcckliche Fahrt) and Symphony No. 2, completing our survey of Mendelssohn's mature symphonies. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is the second in a trilogy of concert overtures by Mendelssohn, the two others being A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Hebrides, the latter recorded on Vol. 1 in this Chandos series. Based on two poems by Goethe these sonorous images describe a ship helplessly becalmed in the open sea, then carried by rising winds towards land. The densely textured, immensely slow opening evocation of oceanic calm and the following quickening full-orchestral crescendo strikingly depict Goethe's verses. Symphony No. 2 was valued as one of Mendelssohn's greatest and most influential achievement for much of the nineteenth century - not least in Britain - but it has since come to be viewed equivocally. A fusion of neo-baroque procedures with romantic sentiment provides the backdrop of this hybrid Symphony-Cantata, made up of three orchestral movements and a choral finale, in which smooth contrapuntal arias contrast with exuberant, dramatic choral sections. The soloists are all emerging young artists in Britain, the wonderfully talented soprano sisters Mary and Sophie Bevan and the tenor Benjamin Hulett.

Meeresstille. Adagio - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Glxc3xbcckliche Fahrt. Molto Allegro E Vivace - Allegro Maestoso - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Sinfonia. Maestoso Con Moto - Allegro - Animato

Allegretto Un Poco Agitato

Adagio Religioso

Allegro Moderato Maestoso - All Men, All Things, All That Has Life and Breath - Animato - Allegro Di

Molto Pixc3xb9 Moderato Ma Con Fuoco. Praise Thou the Lord, O My Spirit

Sing Ye Praise, All Ye Redeemed of the Lord

Allegro Moderato. He Counteth All Your Sorrows in the Time of Need

A Tempo Moderato. All Ye That Cried Unto the Lord in Distress and Deep Affliction

Andante. I Waited for the Lord, He Inclined Unto Me

Allegro Un Poco Agitato. The Sorrows of Death Had Closed All Around Me

Allegro Assai Agitato - We Called Thro' the Darkness - Lento. Watchman, Will the Night Soon Pass?

Allegro Maestoso E Molto Vivace. The Night Is Departing

Andante Con Moto. Let All Men Praise the Lord

Un Poco Pixc3xb9 Animato. Glory and Praise to God

Andante Sostenuto Assai. My Song Shall Be Alway Thy Mercy

Final Chorus. Allegro Non Troppo. Ye Natons, Offer to the Lord Glory and Might!

Pixc3xb9 Vivace. O Give Thanks to the Lord - Maestoso Come Primo. All That Has Life and Breath, Sing to

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