Schoenberg: Kol Nidre & Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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In these live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti the cumulative power is inexorable. — Financial Times, 21st October 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: CSOR9011602
Label: CSO Resound
Length: 56 minutes

Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, for Rabbi-Narrator, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 39

Work length14:11

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Alberto Mizrahi
Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, Duain Wolfe

Shostakovich: Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, for bass & orchestra, Op. 145a

Work length42:30

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Ildar Abdrazakov
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

I. Truth

Track length4:44

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II. Morning

Track length3:05

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III. Love

Track length4:13

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IV. Separation

Track length2:37

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V. Wrath

Track length1:49

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VI. Dante

Track length3:07

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VII. To the Exile

Track length6:26

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VIII. Creativity

Track length3:33

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IX. Night

Track length4:23

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X. Death

Track length4:53

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XI. Immortality

Track length3:40

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This new live recording pairs profound works by two of the 20th century’s greatest composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich. Writer Phillip Huscher describes Schoenberg’s 'Kol Nidre' as a “stark, strong modernist statement,” set to the prayer said on the eve of Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement. Schoenberg, who had fled Europe in 1934, premiered the work in Los Angeles in 1938, one month before the devastating anti-Jewish pogroms of Kristallnacht took place throughout Nazi-Germany. Shostakovich’s suite explores similarly weighty concerns, including themes of love, morality, death, and the human spirit through the poetry of the Renaissance master Michelangelo. Although originally conceived to honour the fifth centenary of the artist’s birth, Shostakovich’s settings became a highly personal testament to concerns the two men shared across the centuries.

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21st October 2016

In these live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti the cumulative power is inexorable.

December 2016

Overall Muti’s pacing is not radically different from Noseda’s – each is entirely convincing. But while each orchestra finds its own colours in the accompaniment, the Chicagoans do have the edge in terms of sustained tone quality and bite, where required

Classical Music January 2017

Muti and his players are inside every note, every silence, and Abdrazakov is better here even than his fine Manchester recording (Chandos). The intensity and focus throughout are shattering, as indeed in the rarely-heard Schoenberg which precedes it.

Schoenberg: Kol Nidre & Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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