"…Marcel Tyberg (1893–1944) wrote richly romantic music with strong echoes of Bruckner, Mahler, Zemlinsky, and Szymanowski in his Third Symphony. …the symphony unfolds in bold colors and sweeping gestures. The Piano Trio of 1936 is, if anything, even more engaging, filled as it is with big-boned, sumptuous themes and rich textures right out of Schumann, Brahms, Franck, and Tchaikovsky. Performances are first-rate." --Fanfare, November 2011
"JoAnn Falletta and her augmented Buffalo Philharmonic play with a wonderful breadth of sound, a palpable sense of excitement, and the thrill of discovery. Naxos offers balanced and vividly transparent sound. So it’s hard to imagine this premier recording surpassed." --American Record Guide, November 2010
"premiere recording. Tyberg (1893-1944) was a Jewish Viennese composer who died in Auschwitz in 1944 (as did several members of my own family—it’s strange to think that they may have been there together). His Third symphony was composed in 1943, and it’s a fine work, obviously in the Viennese tradition—sort of Wagner/Strauss with a Brahmsian structural overlay. It’s colorful, uninhibited, perhaps a bit thickly scored, full of attractive melodic invention, and not a moment too long. For its date of composition it’s a conservative work, but given the circumstances that hardly counts against it. JoAnn Falletta and her Buffalo forces do it proud: this is a bold, confident performance, excellently paced, that never suggests any unfamiliarity with what must have been a very unfamiliar work.
Tyberg’s Piano Trio, from 1936, is even more stylistically reactionary, sounding like a typical example of mid-19th century Romanticism—but again, because it’s the real thing and not a decadent relic it comes across simply as freshly melodious. Okay, it’s not a masterpiece, but its three euphonious movements pass by very pleasingly, and like the symphony it’s very well played (and recorded). Tyberg had a particular knack, both here and in the symphony, for creating vigorous rondo finales that never drag or sound tired, and if you know anything about late-Romantic finales then you know what a rare feat that is! There are many recordings of neglected composers around these days: this one deserves a greater claim on your attention (and purse) than most. It’s a real find." --ClassicsToday.com, September 2010
Artistic Quality 9/9 Sound Quality - ClassicsToday.com
