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A good match, 4 janvier 2006
Par FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires(TOP 500 COMMENTATEURS)
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Robert Schumann was a German composer of the early nineteenth century. He died young, but not before producing many interesting and stunning works. In his short life, he produced piano works (that for which he is best known, perhaps), choral works, concertos, chamber music, and orchestral works. It is of these latter pieces that these discs are composed: * Symphony No. 1 in B flat, "Spring", op. 38 (composed in 1841) * Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61 (composed in 1846) * Symphony No. 3 in E flat, "Rhenish", op. 97 (composed in 1850) * Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 (first composed in 1841; revised in 1851) This CD is the second volume of a three-volume compilation of Schumann’s symphonies produced by Sir Neville Marriner and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. The first and the last symphonies bear some interesting similarities, as one would expect, but the later revisions were significant enough to warrant considering the ordering as above, with the second composed now considered the fourth symphony. For a long time, Schumann seemed to compartmentalise his composition - in 1840, he seemed to concentrate exclusively on ’songs’; in 1841, he wrote two of the four symphonies. Schumann seemed to need to master each type of music before working on another. The second symphony (in order of composition, actually his third), composed during one of Schumann’s troubled periods (he had mis-diagnosed syphillis that complicated his life, as did some of the treatments), was also a quickly inspired and completed piece, but there were gaps of time between his periods of work. There is a slowness and melancholy about this symphony. This disc also includes the Symphony in G-Major, ’Zwickauer’ (Youth), based on a fragment discovered of an earlier symphony never finished. The printed score was never released until 1972, as Schumann had set this piece aside after his early attempt at the symphony and never returned to it. Schumann was a leading light in the German Romantic movement, and this series of recordings of the Radio-Sinfonieorchester under the conductor Neville Marriner is wonderful. Marriner is better known as the conductor of the Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields, but his time with the Stuttgart orchestra was a pairing well matched.
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