Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & R Strauss: Festival Prelude Op. 61
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
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...
Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 & R Strauss: Festival Prelude Op. 61
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
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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...
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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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- Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
- Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
Awards and reviews
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.
