Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917280326
Catalog number: CC 72803
Releasedate: 07-10-22
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917280326
Releasedate: 07-10-22
- Fourth and final volume in de Vriend’s survey of Schubert’s symphonies
-It includes symphonies no. 5 (composed in 1816) and no. 6 (1817)
-They represent an important step towards the composer’s maturity
- de Vriend’s complete edition of Schubert’s symphonies has so far received a widespread acclaim from international press.
- BBC Music Magazine on CC 72863 (Symphony no. 9): the feeling is of musical values leading at every point. Fanfare on CC 72802 (Symphonies no. 1,3,8): the performances, with their odd combination of delicacy, decisiveness and drive, really work. Pizzicato on CC 72739 (Symphonies nos. 2,4): with fluid, agile and vivid performances, de Vriend takes a promising start into a new complete cycle of Schubert’s symphonies
-It includes symphonies no. 5 (composed in 1816) and no. 6 (1817)
-They represent an important step towards the composer’s maturity
- de Vriend’s complete edition of Schubert’s symphonies has so far received a widespread acclaim from international press.
- BBC Music Magazine on CC 72863 (Symphony no. 9): the feeling is of musical values leading at every point. Fanfare on CC 72802 (Symphonies no. 1,3,8): the performances, with their odd combination of delicacy, decisiveness and drive, really work. Pizzicato on CC 72739 (Symphonies nos. 2,4): with fluid, agile and vivid performances, de Vriend takes a promising start into a new complete cycle of Schubert’s symphonies
Schubert’s musical ideas at this time sometimes bear a family resemblance to themes by Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven, but nevertheless his own style was already precociously developed. One would not mistake his Fifth Symphony of 1816 for the work of any other composer, though its difference in character from the Fourth Symphony is equally striking. Here, omitting clarinets, trumpets or timpani, Schubert uses a reduced orchestration in comparison with his previous symphonies.
Schubert began his Sixth Symphony in October 1817 and completed it in the following February. The Sixth Symphony represents a sideways step in Schubert’s symphonic development, a digression which may be explained by the phenomenal popularity of Rossini. At this time Rossini’s operas were being received with tremendous enthusiasm in Vienna. Keen to earn a living from his compositions, Schubert now emulated aspects of the style which was enjoying such vogue.
Schubert began his Sixth Symphony in October 1817 and completed it in the following February. The Sixth Symphony represents a sideways step in Schubert’s symphonic development, a digression which may be explained by the phenomenal popularity of Rossini. At this time Rossini’s operas were being received with tremendous enthusiasm in Vienna. Keen to earn a living from his compositions, Schubert now emulated aspects of the style which was enjoying such vogue.
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1Symphony No. 5 D. 485Allegro07:26
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2Symphony No. 5 D. 485Andante con moto09:33
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3Symphony No. 5 D. 485Menuetto. Allegro molto08:50
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4Symphony No. 5 D. 485Allegro vivace08:50
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5Symphony No. 6 D. 589Adagio - Allegro09:14
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6Symphony No. 6 D. 589Andante05:43
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7Symphony No. 6 D. 589Scherzo. Presto - Più lento06:11
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8Symphony No. 6 D. 589Allegro moderato09:26