Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

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Zinman brings such a musicianly personality to everything he touches: phrasing and articulation are completely natural, without a trace of the overemphatic leanness of period instrument performance,... — Financial Times, 18th August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jul 2012
Catalogue No: 88691963792
Label: RCA
Series: David Zinman Schubert Symphonies
Length: 53 minutes

Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200

Work length22:38

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$6.80

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
David Zinman

I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro con brio

Track length8:47

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$1.70

II. Allegretto

Track length3:41

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$1.70

III. Menuetto. Vivace - Trio

Track length3:45

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$1.70

IV. Presto vivace

Track length6:25

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Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic'

Work length30:45

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Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
David Zinman

I. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace

Track length8:56

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andante

Track length8:13

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$1.70

III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace

Track length3:02

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Allegro

Track length10:34

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After their acclaimed recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies in a new musical guise, a highly-regarded cycle of Richard Strauss's tone poems, the complete Mahler symphonies and a number of other musical projects with which they attracted widespread attention, David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich now devote themselves to the symphonies of Franz Schubert. We began with 2 volumes – one containing Symphonies 1&2, and the second containing the 7th Symphony, and this is now followed by the brand new recording of Symphonies 3 & 4, released on 2nd July 2012.

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18th August 2012

Zinman brings such a musicianly personality to everything he touches: phrasing and articulation are completely natural, without a trace of the overemphatic leanness of period instrument performance, but equally avoiding the lugubriousness of 20th century tradition...he captures the wit and lilt of the Third Symphony, in a way that makes it sound like a young cousin of Haydn’s ultra-civilised London symphonies.

November 2012

Zinman and his expert band give predictably athletic, tightly disciplined performances of two contrasting early Schubert Symphonies...With sparing string vibrato, crisp, no-nonsense tempi and valveless trumpets and horns, the performances have a period feel.

March 2013

Zinman presents these two very different symphonies engagingly. There’s sensitivity to their flowing lines, a welcome lack of affectation in Symphony 3 and an intelligent clarification of the ambivalence of Symphony 4. It’s just a pity he hasn’t quite managed Abbado’s capability of creating really thrilling finales.

12th August 2012

Listening to these sprightly performances under Zinman — 76 years old, but hardly veteran-sounding — one has to concur with Dvorak’s astonishment that the young Schubert could express himself with such “deep pathos”.

15th August 2012

There's certainly a lightness and litheness to the way that he and the orchestra launch into the opening movement of the D major Third, though the textures are still fairly dense, without any of the transparency that period instruments would bring to this music. The performance of the Fourth, in C minor, goes for broke and ratchets up the tragic intensity as much as it can.

14th October 2012

The Fourth Symphony quickly sheds the gloom of its opening Adagio, and, though Zinman is too smooth an operator to capture its breakneck audacity, it’s a handsome, rewarding performance.

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

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