Schumann: Symphonic Works

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freedom from portentousness and unwarranted indulgence...If you are in the market for a chamber-scale performance of these four works in up-to-the-minute sound, you'll not go far wrong with these,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2013
Catalogue No: CC72553
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'

Work length30:21

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Andante un poco maestoso – Allegro molto vivace

Track length10:36

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Larghetto

Track length6:20

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Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I: Molto piu vivace – Trio II

Track length5:05

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Allegro animato e grazioso

Track length8:20

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Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

Work length35:39

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Sostenuto assai – Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length11:41

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Scherzo: Allegro vivace

Track length6:45

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Adagio espressivo

Track length8:43

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Allegro molto vivace

Track length8:30

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Schumann: Sechs Fugen über den Namen BACH, Op. 60: Fuge No. 6

Work length7:23

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'Rhenish'

Work length31:32

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Lebhaft

Track length9:36

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Scherzo: Sehr mäßig

Track length6:14

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Nicht schnell

Track length4:32

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Feierlich

Track length5:20

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Lebhaft

Track length5:50

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Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

Work length23:15

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Andante con moto – Allegro di molto

Track length8:17

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Romanza: Andante

Track length2:58

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Scherzo: Presto

Track length6:13

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Largo - Finale: Allegro vivace

Track length5:47

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Schumann: Symphony in G minor 'Zwickau'

Work length17:31

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Michael Schønwandt, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Moderato allegro

Track length9:40

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Andantino quasi allegretto - Intermezzo quasi scherzo: Allegro assai - Andantino

Track length7:51

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This double hybrid SACD set from the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic and its chief conductor Michael Schønwandt brings together all four of Robert Schumann’s symphonies. It also includes two lesser known works, the incomplete early Symphony in G Minor, WoO 29 ‘Zwickau’, and an arrangement by Hans de Vlieger of the last of the Six Fugues on the name BACH, Op. 60, originally written for the pedal piano.

The numbering of the symphonies produces a degree of confusion in that the Symphony in D minor from 1841 was fundamentally revised by Schumann in 1851 and was then given number 4. The recording on this CD is a reconstruction of the original version and is in fact Schumann’s ‘Second’.

Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt was Music Director of the Royal Orchestra and the Royal Opera in Copenhagen from 2000-2011, and associated with the company since 1979. In September 2010 he took up the position of Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also held posts as Chief Conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (1992-1998), Principal Guest Conductor of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (1987-2000), and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra. Alongside this he has been chief conductor of Collegium Musicum since its foundation in 1981.

Michael Schønwandt has recorded all of Carl Nielsen’s symphonies on CD for Dacapo and directed the Royal Danish Orchestra on the DVD release of Kasper Bech Holten’s staging of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung. Since 2010 he has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic in Amsterdam, and has been principal guest conductor of the Staatsoper in Stuttgart.

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January 2014

freedom from portentousness and unwarranted indulgence...If you are in the market for a chamber-scale performance of these four works in up-to-the-minute sound, you'll not go far wrong with these, at medium price.

14th January 2014

These performances are a pleasure to listen to. Everything seems just right - tempi, phrasing and dynamics. Gripping, thrilling and invigorating are adjectives which come to mind...If you have had any doubts about Schumann’s symphonies, give these a try. You certainly won’t be disappointed.

Schumann: Symphonic Works

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