Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Lançado em 22/04/22 por Sony Classical
Artistas principais: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)
Género: Clássica

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Mason Bates' Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra, in this, its 23-minute audio form, might be seen as a modern-day counterpart to Benjamin Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, but its primary function is as a teaser for a multimedia work of the same title, fusing animation and music; its real ancestor is the 1940 Walt Disney film Fantasia. The multimedia presentation comes with sterling credentials in the form of this endorsement from John Williams: "In the art of marrying music with animation, Philharmonia Fantastique is the biggest step forward since Fantasia itself." Fantasia featured one of the top American orchestras of its day, the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Bates' new work is here rendered by one equally good, the Chicago Symphony. If conductor Edwin Outwater is not a marquee name like Stokowski, he gets wonderful results from the orchestra in this colorful score. Sample the beginning of the fifth movement, "The Brass," where the powers of the famous Chicago Symphony brass section seem fully undiminished. This passage also points to another source of publicity for Philharmonia Fantastique: the sound, which earned a Best Engineered Album Grammy award in 2023. The brass seem to purr but not to lose their resonance, and there are wonderful sonic moments throughout. Philharmonia Fantastique has a busy performance schedule lined up with various orchestras, but for the music itself, it would seem difficult to top this premiere release.

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Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)

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