Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Van Beinum - Debussy: Trois Nocturnes; La mer; Images pour orchestre [Australia]
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Artist: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Van BeinumComposer: Claude Debussy
Conductor: Eduard Van Beinum
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-01-28
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
- Trois Nocturnes - Nuages
- Trois Nocturnes - Fetes
- Trois Nocturnes - Sirenes
- La Mer - De L'aube A Midi Sur La Mer
- La Mer - Jeux De Vagues
- La Mer - Dialogue Du Vent Et De La Mer
- Images Pour Orchestre - Gigues
- Images Pour Orchestre - Iberia Pt1
- Images Pour Orchestre - Iberia Pt2
- Images Pour Orchestre - Iberia Pt3
- Images Pour Orchestre - Rondes De Printemps
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Free Music Review: Great Stunning Original Performances - But Some Unspeakably Shrill Highs!
Hit: 3 Stars
Van Beinum and the Concertgebouw can almost always be counted on for solid clean musical performances, performances played with requisite force when required. Of course, this marvelous orchestra's world renown was established by Van Beinum's predecessor, Megelberg. Recordings of the Concertgebouw have long been sought after for the orchestra's unerring balance among the instruments, a remarkably blended tone color throughout the sections, and astonishing pitch - Mengelberg being quite a fanatic about this latter! While Mengelberg could be very free at times with the music, quite the personification of the romantic self-indulegnet conductor of legend, Van Beinum was consistenly noted for a more straightforward approach. This style, carried on by his great successor Haitink, does have some drawbacks - sometimes one might wish for a little more daring and originality.
However, sometimes Van Beinum catches fire, projecting a truly imaginative way with a score, and that's the case here. To the best of my knowledge no one has given a more exciting reading of Debussy's Gigues from the Images - this whole performance goes from strength to strength with tremendous vigor and intensity. What most distinquishes this version is a remarkably virile response to Debussy's latent musical suggestions - which van Beinum explores for all they're worth. Richard Strauss, during a sudden forte passage in the opening of Pelleas, turned to French novelist Romain Rolland and enthused - "That's what you need! You have to hit them over the head so they'll follow you." It appears van Beinum has proceeded much along those lines of though in his interpretation of Debussy. These are extremely extroverted readings, as powerful as any I've ever heard, memorably rich in melodic shapings, and striking in the conductor's devil may care go for broke attacks. We're a long long way from the perfumed approach!
Sadly, this Eloquence issue suffers from violently painful stridency in the early mono recordings of the Images, from 1954. Whatever sonic glories the reviewer who lauded these recordings, especially the Images, heard, they're nowhere to be found on this Eloquence issue! Quite the opposite. The later stereo recordings fare much much better. There is now a reissue of these Debussy on a large box set of van Beinum Philips Recordings 1954-1958, Vol. 2 Issued five years after this CD, one can only hope Philips' engineers have significantly tamed down the highs spoiling the otherwise sensational recording of Debussy's Images.
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