Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & R Strauss: Festival Prelude Op. 61

The result, though not always subtle, is undoubtedly exciting, and difficult to resist…a thoroughly enjoyable performance, situated somewhere between Bychkov’s mellow refinement and the brassy... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: MDG9372006
Label: MDG
Series: Live

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Schmidt, F: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Stefan Blunier

Strauss, R: Festliches Präludium, Op. 61

Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Stefan Blunier

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Franz Schmidt was “the most musical man in Vienna” – this is what Gustav Mahler had to say about his fellow composer, who, unlike him, is almost completely forgotten today. Stefan Blunier has rediscovered this late-romantic master and now with the mighty forces of the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn presents Schmidt’s Symphony No. 2 together with Richard Strauss’s Festival Prelude composed during the same year for the opening of Vienna’s Konzerthaus.

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Awards Issue 2017

The result, though not always subtle, is undoubtedly exciting, and difficult to resist…a thoroughly enjoyable performance, situated somewhere between Bychkov’s mellow refinement and the brassy thrills of Neeme Järvi’s Chicago account…The engineering, I should add, is rich and seductive.

Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & R Strauss: Festival Prelude Op. 61

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