Hans Vonk and the St. Louis Symphony's recordings of Debussy's La Mer, Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse plus Roussel's Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane are of generally good quality, but they pale somewhat in comparison to the best recordings of the repertoire. There is a taste of the sea in their La Mer, a feeling of the ...
Hans Vonk recorded Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-symphonie in 1999 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and this luminous performance has been selected by Arch Media Archives for its eight-CD tribute to the conductor. While Vonk is probably best known for performing the Romantic repertoire, with few recordings of modern music to his credit, ...
Even though Hans Vonk led the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for only six years, he left a distinctive mark on the ensemble and recorded some of his finest performances with it. This live recording of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," dates from 2001; as one of Vonk's preferred performances, it was included in an eight-CD ...
Though Hans Vonk and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are unlikely to make anyone's top 10 list of great conductor/orchestra tag teams, they succeeded in producing some of the best Brahms recordings on record. Their 1999 Beethoven First is bright, poised, and propulsive with the unique mixture of wit and warmth typical of the composer in his youth ...
Of Brahms' symphonies, his Symphony No. 2 in D major is the sunniest, a vibrant and rhythmically supple work overflowing with ardent melodies, joyful syncopations, and robust brass writing. Yet for all its brightness, Brahms' orchestration can be quite problematic, since his frequent doublings of winds and strings and scoring for full sections are ...
This live recording of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra led by the late Hans Vonk is an outstanding Mahler Fourth. There is an easy, affectionate interplay between the American orchestra and the Dutch conductor, and soprano Esther Heideman contributes graceful, unaffected singing in the finale. But Vonk's interpretation of the work is what ...
As a sample of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Vonk's work together, this disc combining Gabriel Fauré's incidental music to Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande with Arnold Schoenberg's tone poem on the same subject cannot be bettered. Though other recordings in this series featured works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, ...
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