Schubert - Symphonies 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8, Rosamunde
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825521
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 9th March 2018
Contents
Works
Rosamunde: Incidental Music, D797 (excerpts)Symphony no.3 in D major, D200
Symphony no.4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Artists
ConcertgebouworkestConductor
Eduard van BeinumWorks
Rosamunde: Incidental Music, D797 (excerpts)Symphony no.3 in D major, D200
Symphony no.4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic'
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Artists
ConcertgebouworkestConductor
Eduard van BeinumAbout
The conductor has been revealed anew as an interpreter of lucidly phrased fidelity to the score and uncommon sensitivity. The present issue brings repertoire especially close to Van Beinum’s heart. He was a master Schubertian, who needed to be taught no lessons by the nascent period-instrument movement on nurturing a hop, skip and jump in the composer’s effervescent orchestral textures or coaxing a sweetly flowing lyricism from their sunny complexions.
Ranging from the late mono to the early stereo era, the recordings begin with a driven and thrilling Fifth Symphony from September 1946: one of the first postwar recordings made by Decca with the orchestra. In fact, fleet tempi mark out all these recordings from most of their contemporaries, as does the inclusion of many repeats. The Third (1955) and Sixth (1957) are particular highlights: in the last five years of his life, Van Beinum conducted these more frequently than any symphony by Beethoven. Even the ‘Unfinished’ (also from 1957) is full of pathos but unburdened by anachronistically Romantic weight and sentiment, stylistically some years ahead of its time.
This generously filled twofer is completed by 1952 recordings of the Fourth Symphony and incidental music from Rosamunde, both masterminded at the control desk by the legendary Decca producer John Culshaw.
‘I enjoyed this very much. And that is something to say of yet another new recording of the ‘Unfinished’. Van Beinum is a conductor of whom I don’t normally expect some blinding new revelation but I do always expect from him a thoroughly musical interpretation, faithful to the score and, at the same time, sensitive; and that is what he gives us here.’ - (No.8) Gramophone, August 1958
‘Not only is there brio and dash aplenty, there is a daring that other conductors would do well to follow. Van Beinum, for example, has the good sense to ignore Schubert’s moderato specification for the finale of the Sixth Symphony, arid at the conductor’s uncommonly brisk tempo, this often tedious-sounding music becomes transformed into something refreshingly animated ... Indeed, the “Unfinished” offers a blend of soaring lyricism and searing intensity that one rarely encounters and that purges the work of even the slightest hint of sentimentality.’ - Fanfare, May/June 1979
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