Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside

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This is a golden performance…the opening is a transparent babbling brook…strings sweep forward in far from generic melody…[the central variations] balance sweetness with will-o’-the-wisp fantasy... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Apr 2017
Catalogue No: 88985355522
Label: Sony
Length: 55 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2017

Recording of the month
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2018

Finalist - Orchestral

Schmidt, F: Franz Schmidt: Sinfonie Nr. 2 Es-Dur

Work length48:13

Album only

Semyon Bychkov, Wiener Philharmoniker

I. Lebhaft

Track length15:52

Album only

II. Allegretto con variazioni

Track length18:11

Album only

III. Finale

Track length14:10

Album only

Strauss, R: Intermezzo, Op. 72: Symphonic Interlude - Träumerei am Kamin

Work length6:51

$1.30

$1.70

$2.00

Semyon Bychkov, Wiener Philharmoniker

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Franz Schmidt was a cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra himself and he allowed the orchestra to premiere his symphony in 1913, which since then belongs in the orchestra’s main repertoire.

With Semyon Bychkov, they are a proven team to champion Schmidt’s Symphony…

The second symphony is the most brilliant and extroverted one with the largest instrumentation.

The Strauss ‘Dreaming by the Fireside’ is a famous intermezzo from the same-named opera by Strauss.

On this album, the work is performed by The Strauss Orchestra.

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July 2017

This is a golden performance…the opening is a transparent babbling brook…strings sweep forward in far from generic melody…[the central variations] balance sweetness with will-o’-the-wisp fantasy until the climatic variation…the finale builds in expressive counterpoint towards a great chorale…this is down on my list of the best discs of 2017 already, and it will take some toppling from first place

July 2017

It's as apparent here as much as it was in [the Proms performance] the amount of affection with which both orchestra and conductor approach this work...this new recording makes a persuasive case for a work of considerable beauty. It's an important addition to the catalogue. A gentle, tender account of Strauss's most famous Intermezzo interlude makes a charming if hardly generous coupling.

FonoForum June 2017

With euphonious finesse and nuanced orchestral sonorities, his score – surely a masterpiece of fin-de-siècle Vienna – is unsurpassed by any orchestral work of his time. It is interpreted here with a comfortable familiarity that nonetheless never sounds routine.

Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside

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