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Photo: Nicolas Ruel
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Kent Nagano, Conductor
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Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter
of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. Equally at home in
classical and contemporary repertoire, much of his inspiration stemmed
from the time he spent with his mentor, Olivier Messiaen, whose
piano he inherited. He has played a significant part in the new
wave of thinking in Germany, where musical minds have been opening
up significantly to inventive, controversial programming and musical
thought.
'Nagano gives an absolutely superb reading of the Schönberg,
the melodic lines shaped with affection, the complex textures perfectly
and fastidiously balanced, but with a thrilling sense of through-composed
drive and purpose as strong as in the Brahms. There's a gratifying
number of good competing versions but this probably knocks even
Karajan's classic recording with the Berlin Philharmonic, my favourite
until now, off the top spot.' |
New
Release: Brahms Symphony No 4 & Schönberg Variations with
the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted