Schubert / Residentie Orkest the Hague: Complete Symphonies 1 - SUPER-AUDIO CD

Schubert / Residentie Orkest the Hague: Complete Symphonies 1 - SUPER-AUDIO CD

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Title:

Complete Symphonies 1

Artist:

Schubert / Residentie Orkest the Hague

Label:

Challenge Classics

Product Type:

SUPER-AUDIO CD

UPC:

608917273922

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2018-10-05

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

HYBRID SACD

Schubert composed his first five symphonies while still a teenager, but they represent just one facet of his prodigious fluency. At this time some of his musical ideas bear a family resemblance to certain themes from Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, but already his own musical character is evident. He began his Second Symphony in December 1814 and had finished it by March 24th of the following year. He completed the Fourth Symphony in about three to four weeks during April 1816. We should not read too much into the Fourth Symphony's "Tragic" appendage, added by Schubert as an afterthought. It may be merely an example of the flippant comments which he wrote on some of his youthful scores, but nevertheless the symphony has more gravitas than it's predecessors. Schubert also includes a second pair of horns to enrich the texture. Actually, this is the only piece of non-programmatic music to which he gave a descriptive title. After completing the symphonic cycles of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, Jan Willem de Vriend now undertakes Schubert's complete symphonic output. This is the first volume in that series.

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