Louis Spohr: Symphonien Nr.4 & 5
Symphonien Nr.4 & 5
CD
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Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- +Ouvertüre WoO. 64 "Das befreite Deutschland"
- Künstler: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 8640991
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.3.2008
Product-Information:
In this second volume of Spohr’s symphonies, Howard Shelley and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana continue their exploration of this enjoyable and little-known repertoire. Formerly one of the most significant personalities in nineteenth-century German music, Spohr’s symphonies were as popular as those of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven until he fell from fashion in the later part of the nineteenth century. Symphony No 4 was quickly acclaimed as the composer’s symphonic masterpiece after its first performance. It is a forward-looking, programmatic work based on a poem by Carl Pfeiffer, ‘The Consecration of Sounds’. Unusually, it features a slow finale, and in this way was an important example to future composers including Tchaikovsky and Mahler. Symphony No 5 is a deeply felt work, pouring out pent-up emotions from dramatic events in the composer’s life at the time of writing with real expressive power. The disc also features the overture to a cantata Das befreite Deutschland (‘Germany liberated’), composed following Napoleon’s disastrous defeat at the battle of Leipzig in October 1813.
Rezensionen
'Shelley's triumphant achievement … Expert engineering and highly informative notes complete a handsome presentation that suggests this will be a landmark cycle in the burgeoning recorded legacy of Louis Spohr' (American Record Guide)
'Spohr the symphonist repays the attention this disc merits; his programmatic fourth symphony features a slow finale that set a precedent for Tchaikovsky and Mahler, while Shelley and his fine Italian players capture the expressive power of the turbulent fifth' (Observer)
'The Fifth Symphony … carries a weightier burden of grief in the wake of some personal losses … especially in the Larghetto, a dark movement beautifully scored with low strings and sombre brass … Howard Shelley and his orchestra give it a fresh and vivid performance' (International Record Review)
'Here is a follow-up to the recording of Louis Spohr's first two symphonies that I praised last October … There's a lovely anticipation of 'Forest Murmurs' from Wagner's Siegfired; similarly, the Larghetto of Symphony No 5 might put you in mind of Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony. Shelley gets both delicacy and passion from the excellent orchestra' (Classic FM Magazine)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Das befreite Deutschland (Ouvertüre) WoO 64
- 1 Adagio - Allegro moderato
Sinfonie Nr. 4 F-Dur op. 86 "Die Weihe der Töne"
- 2 1. Largo - Allegro
- 3 2. Andantino - Allegro - Andantino
- 4 3. Tempo di marcia - Andante maestoso
- 5 4. Larghetto - Allegretto
Sinfonie Nr. 5 c-moll op. 102
- 6 1. Andante - Allegro
- 7 2. Larghetto
- 8 3. Scherzo
- 9 4. Presto
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