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Schumann - Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

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Catalogue numberBIS-1619 SACD
Release date2008-09-25
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time76:30

International Record Review: outstanding; Fono Forum: outstanding.

For some years, Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra have been developing their project ‘Opening Doors’, performing symphonies and other orchestral works from the Romantic era with the smaller-than-usual forces of a modern-day chamber orchestra. It has been possible to sample the results of this approach in various music centres around the world during the team’s extensive tours, as well as on disc. The present disc is the fourth of their Opening Doors recordings and at the same time the closing disc of a ‘series within a series’ – a triptych featuring Schumann’s complete symphonies. Previous instalments have been praised for the freshness of the interpretations. ‘A brilliant recording, which overturns common and oft-repeated judgements regarding Schumann the symphonist’ was the reaction of the reviewer on German website Klassik Heute, while the review of the second disc in International Record Review included the following prediction: ‘If the final disc maintains such excellence, this could well be the Schumann cycle to have.’

Here now is that final Schumann disc, which includes the ‘Rhenish’ Symphony (No.3) as well the fourth symphony in its final 1851 version. (The original version was actually composed in 1841 as the composer’s second work in the genre, and is included on BIS-SACD-1519.) Besides the two symphonic works this generously filled disc also includes two shorter pieces. The Manfred overture opens Schumann’s music to Byron’s dramatic poem: regarded by Clara Schumann as ‘one of the most poetic and most gripping of Robert’s pieces’, it is the only part of the extensive score that is regularly performed. In the case of Hermann und Dorothea, it was a work by Goethe that provided the inspiration. Originally conceived as an opera about two lovers in the confusion after the French Revolution, it was in the end reduced to a concert overture, which prominently features the Marseillaise.
 
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  Composer: Schumann, Robert
  Symphony No.3 in E flat major (‘Rhenish’), Op.97 28:43
01 I. Lebhaft 08:18 $ 1.74 USD
02 II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig 05:20 $ 1.12 USD
03 III. Nicht schnell 04:48 $ 1.01 USD
04 IV. Feierlich 04:47 $ 1.00 USD
05 V. Lebhaft 05:30 $ 1.16 USD
 
06 Overture to ‘Manfred’, Op.115 11:07 $ 2.33 USD
 
07 Hermann und Dorothea, Overture, Op.126 08:53 $ 1.87 USD
 
  Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120 (final version, 1851) 26:17
08 I. Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft – 09:38 $ 2.02 USD
09 II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam – 03:34 $ 0.75 USD
10 III. Scherzo. Lebhaft – 05:26 $ 1.14 USD
11 IV. Langsam – Lebhaft 07:39 $ 1.61 USD
 
  Album total 76:30
OrchestraSvenska Kammarorkestern
ComposerSchumann, Robert
ConductorDausgaard, Thomas

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