Schubert - Complete Symphonies Vol.4: Symphonies 5 & 6 | Challenge Classics CC72803

Schubert - Complete Symphonies Vol.4: Symphonies 5 & 6

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72803

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 21st October 2022

Contents

Artists

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Conductor

Jan Willem de Vriend

Works

Schubert, Franz

Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589

Artists

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Conductor

Jan Willem de Vriend

About

The fourth and final volume in de Vriend's survey 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.

Reviews

thanks to the elegance of the playing one can say that these pieces are as lightly enjoyable as anything Mozart composed at the same age.
BBC Music Magazine
In Symphony 5, Schubert’s Pastoral Symphony, de Vriend secures a bright sound, clear accents and lightly sprung athleticism
MusicWeb International

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