Brandenburgisches So:Yinon - ERDMAN: Symphony No. 4 / Standchen / Monogramme

CPOs recent release of Eduard Erdmann's Symphony No. 3 has shown that this Baltic musician, today remembered mostly as a pianist, was also a composer of the first rank who wrote vibrant, weighty, and brilliant symphonic music. The Symphony No. 4 recorded here is distinguished by a lyrical mood which almost intensifies to melancholy sadness in places. After the symphony's premiere the composer Frank Wohlfahrt wrote in 1954, \What to my mind is decisive about your most recent opus is the power of its intellectual occupation with the basic material and the resultant immediacy of the creative vision. Once again Israel Yinon and the Brandenburg State Orchestra of Frankfurt an der Oder enlist themselves in the cause of this bold symphonic music and its rich contrasts. Israel Yinon conducts the Brandenburg State Orchestra in a committed and well-recorded performance. 'The Independent' on 777068-2 Erdmann Symphony No. 3.