Weingartner: Symphony 2 [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

Felix Weingartner (Composer), Marko Letonja (Conductor), Basel Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Basel Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Marko Letonja
• Composer: Felix Weingartner
• Audio CD (January 17, 2006)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B000CGYO9A
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Das Gefilde Der Seligen Op.21 (Symphonic Poem)

2. Lento-Allegro Mosso

3. Allegro Giocoso

4. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo

5. Lento-Allegro Risoluto

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good symphony to expand your collection, June 18, 2009

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Red Cedar - See all my reviews

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What I like about Weingartner's symphonies is his terrific understanding of orchestration. His use of instrumental combinations is especially masterly. What he lacks in originality, he gains in his confident handling of his music and form. I would describe his orchestration like Mahler's (combinations of woodwinds, strings). His thematic development unfolds slowly and dramatically in the way Bruckner does (and without the incessant tromolos!). For all of his other strengths, Weingarter does not succeed in creating memorable or powerful themes. The best ones he achieves are functional and pleasant. In response to the reviewer that criticises his music as merely derivative, a wholesale dismissal on those grounds is unwarranted and harsh. While it is true, Weingarter is not very original, there is much else to satisfy the sophisticated listener. The question should be, why listen only to the first water? The war horses of pops concerts and Beethoven symphonies is just not nourishing enough for listeners who desire freshness in their musical diets.

I wish I could here his works live in concert. That would be a real treat.

14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weingartner's Best So Far, February 21, 2007

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Kenneth Gilman (Miami Fla) - See all my reviews
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This is not just the best of the four Weingartner symphonies so far recorded, it's one of the best symphonies ever written. As one of the great conductors of all time, Weingartner was fully familiar with all the great music of Western civilization. In this symphony he seems to be writing the totality of all the great music that had gone before. I don't mean to say it's derivative, but rather it's the summation of all that's great & beautiful in Wastern music.

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kudos to CPO for ferreting out Weingartner's music, January 25, 2006

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EKO - See all my reviews

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Richly romantic work. MUCH more enjoyable than other noted conductor/composers (i.e. Furtwangler, Klemperer). Buy this -- you will be pleasantly surprised.