Henze, H: Symphony No. 7
Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Markus Stenz
Forensically detailed and immaculately coloured even when this music is at its most violent, Stenz’s unimpeachable Cologne players deliver an eerie mystery in the slow movement, as if recalling...
Henze, H: Symphony No. 7
Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Markus Stenz
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Forensically detailed and immaculately coloured even when this music is at its most violent, Stenz’s unimpeachable Cologne players deliver an eerie mystery in the slow movement, as if recalling...
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The Seventh Symphony is a key work in Henze‘s symphonic production; his confrontation with the classical-romantic tradition is particularly evident here.
“Number 7 of my orchestral pieces is the one that comes closest to the model of the classical symphony”, he once stated. Until he wrote this one, Henze had not composed any symphonies for over a decade and meanwhile even admitted to the “impossibility” of “creating any more symphonies today”. This work became a great success, however, which the listener will be able to palpably experience with the help of this recording by the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne.
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August 2016
Forensically detailed and immaculately coloured even when this music is at its most violent, Stenz’s unimpeachable Cologne players deliver an eerie mystery in the slow movement, as if recalling Berg in a bad dream, and capture the madness in what Henze called his ‘nasty scherzo’ with clinical, merciless ease
