Sibelius 3 & 4

Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Released on 3/3/23 by Les Disques ATMA Inc.
Main artists: Orchestre Metropolitain Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Genre: Classical

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It is heartening to see conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has gone on to big things, continuing to record with the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, the group that put him on the map, especially inasmuch as this orchestra is perhaps among North America's most underrated. He is in the midst of a Sibelius cycle that has offered many joys. Nézet-Séguin's years of experience with the orchestra show up in precise renditions of difficult passages like the one around the three-minute mark in the first movement of the Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52, where the music recedes almost to nothingness. The finale of this symphony, with its whole-tone scales, goes out not in a blaze of glory but in quiet transcendence. Nézet-Séguin's readings are restrained on the whole, and the grim Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63, does not layer on the depression; the music is almost calmly resigned. It is different from the norm, but it is again realized with an impressive level of detail. AMTA Classique's engineers get top-notch results from the Maison symhonique in Montreal, with the hushed passages achieving a remarkable kind of concentration. Fresh in conception and superb in execution, this is a major recording of perhaps Sibelius' most difficult pair of symphonic works.

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Sibelius 3 & 4

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Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 52 (Jean Sibelius)

I. Allegro moderato