Mahler/Stein: Symphony no.4*; Debussy/Sachs: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faun
Sonia Grane (soprano)*; Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock
Erwin Stein's chamber version of Mahler's Fourth is not the stranger to concert hall or disc it once was; his arrangement is a miracle of clarity and economy. The Academy's young musicians do it full justice, and are rewarded with recorded sound that is both warm and natural. The arrangement of Debussy's Prelude, assumed to be by Schoenberg-pupil Benno Sachs, takes us further from the established version, relying heavily on the piano to 'fill out' the sound; but it is hard to imagine a better account of it on record.
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