Release Date: 10 January 2006
Label: Cpo - Lower Mid Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 761203721627
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: RIES COMPLETE SYMPHONIES
Description
These four CDs, containing all eight of Ries' symphonies, have found their ideal interpreters in the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths: \The interpretation is superb. It is astonishing how Griffiths is able to charge the small ensemble with dramatic force. An inspiring and rousing recording (Stereoplay). Previous praise for the Ries Symphonies as single CDs includes plaudits from 'BBC Music Magazine': "These are inventive works....melodically performed here with energy and passion." Ferdinand Ries belonged to a generation of symphonists who have been unfairly neglected in the annals of music history, due to unfortunate nineteenth-century comparisons of all symphonists to Beethoven. Ries, as Beethoven's student, was by no means exempt from this yardstick, but is slowly regaining the credit and public awareness that has always been his due.""
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Zwarg:Dreissig:Riemer
Zurcher Kammerorchester
Zurich Co:Griffiths
Zassimova:Breuninger
Yamamasu:Wdr So Koln
Winter:Norin:Kobow:Max
