Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in C major 'The Great'

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An excellence of this new live recording is the way Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian players subtly bring out the harmonic changes or enrichments of surrounding part-writing with which Schubert... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: 900169
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 60 minutes

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November 2018

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

Work length1:00:18

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Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 1-2 February 2018
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, München, Germany

I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo

Track length15:29

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II. Andante con moto

Track length13:48

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III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

Track length14:10

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length16:51

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The "Great" C major Symphony was the last symphony that Schubert composed – a “Finished” to follow his "Unfinished", the first two movements of which he had just completed before discontinuing work on it (for reasons unknown). Schubert began this composition in August 1824, or possibly even as late as March 1825. Most of the work on it took place in the summer of 1825, during the longest journey of his life. It took him from Vienna via Linz, Steyr, Gmunden (where he found the scenery "truly heavenly"), Salzburg and then up to Bad Gastein, where he saw some magnificent alpine peaks. The first page of the score manuscript is dated "March 1828" – possibly the month in which he finally completed the work. On November 19 of that same year, Schubert died at the age of only thirty-one. The symphony was premiered posthumously on March 21, 1839 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and conducted by the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister at that time - the 30-year-old Felix Mendelssohn. This is a star-studded and outstanding interpretation of one of the most important compositions of the Romantic symphonic repertoire.

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November 2018

An excellence of this new live recording is the way Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian players subtly bring out the harmonic changes or enrichments of surrounding part-writing with which Schubert more often varies his recurrent long melodies…The Bavarian brass and woodwind are on glowing, translucent form, and the recorded sound is warm and vibrant. In all, a release to renew one’s admiration and love for this wonderful work.

Awards Issue 2018

Jansons and the BRSO let the music flow out organically.

5th August 2018

The playing is magnificent: crystal-clear and incisive, with Schubert’s accents duly emphasised...At first I thought Jansons was taking the finale too slowly, but it achieves overwhelming force and grandeur.

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