Schubert Unfinished and Great Symphonies

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A dramatically convincing, unassuming account [of the Unfinished]...‘The Great ’ – the Ninth – in C major is equally pacily driven when required. There is an echo of Janowski’s facility with... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th May 2023
Catalogue No: PTC5187065
Label: Pentatone
Length: 78 minutes

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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

Work length23:40

$3.75

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$5.60

Dresdner Philharmoniker
Marek Janowski

I. Allegro moderato

Track length13:42

$2.15

$2.60

$3.20

II. Andante con moto

Track length9:58

$1.60

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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'

Work length55:17

Album only

Dresdner Philharmoniker
Marek Janowski

I. Andante – Allegro, ma non troppo – Più moto

Track length16:17

Album only

II. Andante con moto

Track length13:23

$2.15

$2.60

$3.20

III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio

Track length13:59

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IV. Allegro Vivace

Track length11:38

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$3.20

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Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, performing the composer’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies. While the two movements of the “Unfinished” symphony in B Minor reach a level of perfection despite the work’s apparent incompleteness, Robert Schumann praised the “Great” symphony in C Major for its “heavenly length”. Janowski’s interpretation combines a sense of tradition with vitality and intensity. Marek Janowski is one of the most celebrated conductors of our time. After having recorded Schubert songs in orchestrations by Reger and Webern with the tenor Christian Elsner in 2015, Janowski now adds this symphonic Schubert album to his impressive Pentatone discography, following complete recordings of Bruckner, Brahms and Beethoven’s symphonies, several works by Richard Strauss, as well as Wagner’s ten mature operas. He works together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, with whom he already released complete recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021), Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (both 2020)

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August 2023

A dramatically convincing, unassuming account [of the Unfinished]...‘The Great ’ – the Ninth – in C major is equally pacily driven when required. There is an echo of Janowski’s facility with Wagner in the thrillingly judged build up to the f irst movement’s end, and the clarity of Pentatone’s recording reveals every timbre that Janowski elicits from the Dresden.

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