Schubert - Symphonies No.8 & No.9
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94243
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 22nd August 2011
Contents
Artists
St Petersburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
Vladimir LandeWorks
Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'Symphony no.9 in C major, D944 'Great'
Artists
St Petersburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
Vladimir LandeAbout
The years 1818-25 saw him commence 5 symphonies, and abandon 4 of them. Immediately after the 6th he started work on a D major work D615, but left only two unfinished opening movements. 1820 saw a more adventurous project, again in D major. The expansive and nearly complete scherzo looks forward to the Great C major’s scherzo. The other movements are fragmentary. The E major No.7 from 1821 is in a different league. Calling for the largest orchestra in any Schubert symphony, the four movements have the word ‘fine’ scribbled at the end of the score. Schubert only partially scored this work, but it provides a fascinating view to what was to come.
The following year, the B minor No.8 ushered the new symphonic style Schubert had been striving to find. Dramatic and highly emotional, it is a mystery why he never completed the work. The scherzo lacks a trio, and the finale cannot be traced. It is possible that the outsized (and identically scored) entr’acte from Rosamunde was intended as the finale – it certainly resembles the finales of his earlier symphonies. The two-movement torso had to wait until 1865 for its premiere.
The 9th Symphony was fully completed in 1825 – the only symphony Schubert completed in the last decade of his life. His long journey to create a ‘Great’ symphony had been achieved. The 9th is one of the towering masterworks of the repertoire. A gap of 11 years elapsed before the premiere, conducted by Mendelssohn, in Leipzig.
This recording provides a convincing answer to the bias that only Austrians can play Schubert well!
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