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OZartsreview |
| Australia's online independent specialist music review journal | |
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| Country Classics ELOQUENCE - AROMATHERAPY series Reviewed by Sophie Saxe-Lehrman |
Vaughan Williams, Canteloube,
Beethoven, Schubert, Chabrier, MacDowell, Grieg, Massenet, Debussy,
Johann Strauss II |
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| An abiding impression of this
compilation is the imaginative choice of works and a willingness
to leaven chestnuts with relative rarities. A number of tracks
may well be new to some, typically Shepherds' Song and Shepherds'
Chorus from Schubert's Rosamunde and Grieg's Cowkeeper's Tune
to which Willi Boskovsky and the National Philharmonic Orchestra
respond as if to the manner born in a recording dating from 1974.
Zither virtuoso Anton Karas (for millions of cinema fans inextricably
associated with the classic movie The Third Man) teams up with
the Vienna Phiharmonic, again under Boskovsky, who, better than
most and second to few, make musical magic in a 1962 recording
of Strauss' Tales from the Vienna Woods. And winning efforts
by clarinets and cellos make Richard Bonynge's direction of the
National Philharmonic in Sous les tilleuls from Massenet's Scenes
alsaciennes a delight. I liked, too, Kiwi pianist Joseph Cooper's
lovingly fashioned account of MacDowell's To a Water Lily. Expansive
treatment and glowing tone make this a highlight. Kiri te Kanawa,
too, enchants in Bailero from Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne
(Jeffrey Tate conducts the English Chamber Orchestra). |
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