Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8: Abbado Rediscovered

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It’s a second-half sort of performance [of the Fifth], strongly marked, observing all the repeats, wrapped in Viennese legato and finished off with a dash of gentility like cream in coffee…The... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

Release Date: 16th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 4835620
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 55 minutes

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

Work length25:26

$2.20

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1971
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Wien

1. Allegro moderato

Track length12:47

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2. Andante con moto

Track length12:39

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Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485

Work length29:46

$4.40

$6.00

Wiener Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1971
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Wien

1. Allegro

Track length7:19

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$1.50

2. Andante con moto

Track length11:02

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3. Menuetto (Allegro molto)

Track length5:27

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4. Allegro vivace

Track length5:58

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•Previously-unreleased live recording from Vienna’s Große Saal, 31st May 1971: these tapes were recently discovered in the archives of Austrian Radio – the ‘ORF’.

•Includes a 20 page booklet (De, En, It) featuring a new essay from Wolfgang Stähr; an appreciation from Prof. Dr. Clemens Hellsberg, chairman of the Wiener Philharmoniker 1997–2017 and violinist with the orchestra 1976–2016; plus a reproduction of the original program.

Previously-unreleased live recording from Vienna’s Große Saal, 31st May 1971: these tapes were recently discovered in the archives of Austrian Radio – the ‘ORF’. Abbado’s long association with the Wiener Philharmoniker began when he first conducted the orchestra at Herbert von Karajan’s invitation in 1965. The orchestra was so impressed by what the young music director from La Scala achieved that they immediately invited him to conduct one of their subscription concerts in the season after next in the city’s Musikverein. The programme included Schubert’s “Unfinished” and Fifth Symphonies. Austrian Radio recorded the concert on the morning of Whit Monday, 31 May 1971, but the recording lay untouched in the corporation’s archives until now. Now, nearly fifty years later, this recording allows us to rediscover the maestro as we would rediscover a Vermeer with every fresh viewing.

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March 2019

It’s a second-half sort of performance [of the Fifth], strongly marked, observing all the repeats, wrapped in Viennese legato and finished off with a dash of gentility like cream in coffee…The opening of the Unfinished unfolds imposingly but without minatory intent…A kind of Brucknerian long game is played thereafter.

10th February 2019

These live performances from a 1971 concert, released for the first time, show the young maestro in complete rapport with the great Viennese orchestra, which he conducted regularly from 1965 to 1997...they demonstrate the then 37-year-old conductor’s affinity with the Viennese classics. The “Unfinished” is rich in texture, with marvellously contoured solos prominent.

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8

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