Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No.3, Symphony No.5 - RCO, Chailly (1991) {Decca 430 698-2}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical / Concerto / Symphony
Decca have sportingly given the competition 18 months' free run with Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 4/Symphony No. 5. But fine though the Gothenburg/Jarvi performance is, the new recording surpasses it.
In Schnittke's world expressive urge and structural constraint will never unite in total wedded bliss, but in the Fifth Symphony (for short) the thing they produce is certainly bigger than the both of them. I won't rehearse the description I gave in my review of the BIS issue, save to say that it progresses from Stravinskian concerto grosso, through Mantovani-with-a-nervous-breakdown pastiche (based on the teenage Mahler's unfinished Piano Quartet) to full-blown tragic symphony echoing archetypes from Mahler's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. The Concertgebouw, for whose centenary the work was composed, are on superlative form, and Chailly meets every interpretative challenge head-on. I particularly admired his pacing of the finale, which keeps the full force of horror at bay by a series of delaying tactics until a final paroxysm which can soberly be described as blood-curdling.
The quality of the invention places the Fifth Symphony far above the punk-expressionism of some of Schnittke's work (and that of his imitators). In my judgement it stands a real chance of outliving the Zeitgeist within which it was born. The Concerto Grosso No. 3, on the other hand, probably needs historical background knowledge of the kind so expertly and sensitively supplied in Gerard McBurney's insert-note. Here the jumping-off points are Bach (Brandenburg Concertos and Beethoven (Fourth Piano Concerto), and if the superb Concertgebouw performance does not wholly allay my doubts about the musical quality of the piece, this remains a superior coupling to the orchestral study Pianissimo offered by BIS. Both works are as magnificently recorded as they are played. In sum, if a single Schnittke CD is all your collection will run to, I would recommend it be this one. – Gramophone [2/1992].
Musicians
Ronald Brautigam, piano
Viktor Liberman, violin
Jaap van Zweden, violin
Jap Spronk, oboe
Jan Piet Knijff, harpsichord
Robert Waterman, violin
Gerrit Jan Leuverink, viola
Saskia Boon, cello
Ruud van den Brink, piano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Works on This Recording
1.
Concerto Grosso no 3 by Alfred Schnittke
Performer: Jaap van Zweden (Violin), Ronald Brautigam (Harpsichord), Ronald Brautigam (Piano),
Viktor Liberman (Violin)
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1985; USSR
Date of Recording: 02/1990
Venue: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 21 Minutes 56 Secs.
2.
Symphony no 5 "Concerto Grosso no 4" by Alfred Schnittke
Performer: Saskia Boon (Cello), Jan Piet Knijff (Harpsichord), Robert Waterman (Violin),
Gerrit Jan Leuverink (Viola), Jan Spronk (Oboe), Jaap van Zweden (Violin),
Ruud Van den Brink (Piano)
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1988; USSR
Date of Recording: 10/1989
Venue: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Length: 36 Minutes 55 Secs.
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