Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi – Anton Bruckner: 7th Symphony (2009)
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Genre: Classical | Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal – 88697389972
Paavo Järvi comes to the 1883 Bruckner Seventh Symphony in E Major [recorded November 22-24, 2006] by way of the Leopold Nowak edition. More to the point, however, he extends the tradition of the original founder of the Frankfurt ensemble, Hans Rosbaud, by his willingness to approach the E Major as a constant work-in-progress whose thematic periods can be approached in a variety of organically wrought means. Järvi’s streamlined style in the first movement—its emphasis on the lyric bases of the three thematic groups in hymnal syntax and Wagnerian harmony—resembles the kind of bright radiance that Gunter Wand achieved without the burden of piety that weighs down much of Sergiu Celibidache’s legacy in Bruckner.
Even given Järvi’s basic propulsion in the rhythmic surface, the tendency of the orchestra to build upon an organ diapason creates an internal tension between monumentality and bucolic transparency of texture. The colors in Järvi’s orchestra ring with extremely etched contours, the flutes moving into the low strings with a deliberate shading of the Old Masters, say Rembrandt. The sonic mix—courtesy of Ruediger Orth—captures the alternately vehement and serene ecstasies of this mighty score, whose first movement certainly echoes motives from Valhalla. The leisure of the transition to the recapitulation, on the other hand, shimmers with the kind of internal, fluid patience that we ascribe to the noble Furtwängler readings of this score. The coda ushers in that Elysian sweep and grandeur that utters “Himmel hoch!” in every bar.
The Adagio, of course, does pay direct homage to the memory of Richard Wagner, a warmly radiant valedictory, which culminates at bar 177 and whose inflamed stretti will eventually recede into an ethereal pianissimo. Järvi manages to maintain a taut pulsation within the vast or vaulted architecture of this expansive movement, though for me the weight of the first two movements tends to make even the most lyric outpouring top-heavy. Still, we seem to move through a number of Wagnerian labyrinths, and declamations from Daland or Kundry seem immanent. The Valkyries ride in their idiosyncratic march-waltz in the Scherzo, the fourths and fifths chirping or fox-hunting as is their wont. The passion swells in mock demonic fury, only to relent in Schubertian hues for the trio section. The da capo features some splendid trumpet work in syncopation. The Finale—in the manner of the ouroboros—recycles materials in the first movement in an energetic, concise manner. Collaboration between principal flute, strings, and French horns floats seamlessly toward the ultimate peroration in which Wagner’s mortality his epic posterity converge. Has the whole progress been a Rhine Journey? A vast and rewarding enterprise from first to last this Järvi Seventh.
—Gary R. Lemco classicalmusicguide.com
Tracklist:
Symphony No.7 in E Major
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
3. Scherzo. Sehr schnell
4. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell
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