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Boosey & Hawkes
“The task [of reflecting Mahler’s masterworks] was assigned to that most genial of living Viennese composers, Kurt Schwertsik. Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, with its two “night-music” movements, had been the entrance point for his 20-minute BBC commission, Nachtmusiken. No things that go bump in the night here: rather a suite of occasional character pieces, an offering of fragrant Viennoiserie, evoking a series of departed spirits. Those spectral presences include Janácek, whose characteristic inflections merge and mingle as in a dream, and David Drew, the critic and writer who died last summer, who is remembered in the eulogy of a quartet of cellos, frosted by glockenspiel. In between an accordion spices a bittersweet Viennese waltz, a toy march hovers between West and East Europe and the final fugue is touched by a frisson of Mahler’s First Symphony.”
The Times
“Attractively scored, it was played with considerable finesse, and its elegance contrasted with the cataclysmic performance of Mahler’s First that followed.”
The Guardian
BBC Philharmonic/HK Gruber
Chandos CHAN 10687