Kammerakademie Potsdam & Antonello Manacorda - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Kammerakademie Potsdam, headed by Antonello Manacorda, received an Echo Klassik Award as the year's best orchestra for its complete recording of the Schubert symphonies. Now it is turning to a Mendelssohn cycle and has already received high praise for its recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4: “sparkling and vivacious”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, “a sentient being with heartbeat that breathes and never stops moving”. Now these works are followed by Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, which occupy a special place in Mendelssohn's oeuvre. The atmospheric and popular “Scottish” Symphony (No. 3) has an autobiographical aspect in the form of the composer’s 1829 journey to Scotland, a place of longing much frequented by Central Europeans for its rugged landscapes, fog-bound seacoasts and legends of witches and sorcerers, all of which find their way into the music. Symphony No. 5, often called the “Reformation” Symphony, was written in 1830 for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. In the event, its performance had to be postponed owing to the pan-European revolutions of 1830, and the work did not receive its première until two years later. An x8 trak piece of work.

TARCKLIST

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

1 I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato 16:02
2 II. Vivace non troppo 04:18
3 III. Adagio 09:43
4 IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai 09:43
5 I. Andante - Allegro con fuoco 11:20
6 II. Allegro vivace 04:42
7 III. Andante 05:32
8 IV. Choral "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott". Andante con moto - Allegro vivace - Allegro maestoso 08:38

PERSONNEL
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda, conductor