Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. V

Holliger is particularly good at bringing out light and shade in Schumann’s orchestration and highlighting inner details…the Konzertstücke for four horns, magnificently executed by the orchestra’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 18th Mar 2016
Catalogue No: AUDITE97718
Label: Audite
Series: Schumann Complete Symphonic Works
Length: 67 minutes

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Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Op. 134

Work length15:51

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Alexander Lonquich
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Heinz Holliger

Schumann: Fantasie in C major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.131

Work length15:49

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Heinz Holliger

Schumann: Introduction & Allegro appassionato in G major, Op. 92

Work length16:03

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Alexander Lonquich
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Heinz Holliger

Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns, Op. 86

Work length19:45

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Paul van Zelm, Ludwig Rast, Rainer Jurkiewicz, Joachim Pöltl
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Heinz Holliger

I. Lebhaft

Track length7:50

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II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam

Track length5:38

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III. Sehr Lebhaft

Track length6:17

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Schumann’s 'Konzertstücke' complement his solo concertos. Confined to one movement, they are more concentrated, more pointed in their characters and freer in the development of their ideas than their bigger siblings.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja puts her own stamp onto this compact genre. Corresponding to her performance of the Violin Concerto (on Vol. 4), she also interprets the 'Violin Fantasy' without any Romantic bias. She traces Schumann’s contrasts with a broad sound palette, clear sounds alternating with intensive vibrato, and virtuoso passages characterised by nimble agility. The Fantasy finds its expression in Kopatchinskaja’s free approach.

Alexander Lonquich’s performance of the two Konzertstücke for piano follows an individual, but nonetheless Romantic reading, favouring rich sounds and carefully controlled accentuation as a means of expression. The covertly multi-movement Konzertstück for Four Horns reveals Schumann’s symphonic experience: he softens the boundaries of the symphony as a genre in the Classical-Romantic tradition. April will see the release of the Schumann edition’s final volume, showcasing the 'Zwickau' Symphony as well as the complete Overtures.

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July 2016

Holliger is particularly good at bringing out light and shade in Schumann’s orchestration and highlighting inner details…the Konzertstücke for four horns, magnificently executed by the orchestra’s principals, benefits from Holliger’s insights, the irresistible exuberance of the outer movements contrasting with the mellifluous expressiveness achieved in the central Romance

17th March 2016

Holliger’s performance–with a fabulously secure quartet of soloists–luxuriates in the sonorities it generates, while in the two works with piano, the soloist Alexander Lonquich finds moments of poetic beauty in the lyrical interludes. Only the violin Fantasy remains rather amorphous: it is short on memorable ideas, though Patricia Kopatchinskaja typically works hard to bring what there are to life, and Holliger aerates the orchestral textures wherever he can

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