Schubert: Transfiguration: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9

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There’s real musicality here at the service of imaginative phrasing, with just enough added force to keep everything animated. A “Great” Symphony without longueurs is rare but this is one. — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2022
Catalogue No: AVSA9950
Label: Alia Vox
Length: 85 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

November 2022

Editor's Choice
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 'Unfinished'

Work length24:38

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Jordi Savall
Le Concert des Nations

I. Allegro moderato

Track length14:41

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II. Andante con moto

Track length9:57

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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major D. 944 'The Great'

Work length1:01:15

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Jordi Savall
Le Concert des Nations

I. Andante · Allegro ma non troppo - Più mosso

Track length15:26

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II. Andante con moto

Track length13:55

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III. Allegro vivace - Trio - Scherzo da capo

Track length16:27

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length15:27

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Jordi Savall releases his first Schubert album, following a recording of Beethoven’s complete symphonies which largely contributed to renew our vision of the early Romantic repertoire. The Catalan maestro delivers a recording freed from the weight of past traditions to underline the dynamics, the section balance and the timbres that are required in this repertoire. Jordi Savall decided to entitle this album Transfiguration, because, as he explains, we are always astonished at Schubert’s ability to reach this essentially internal and spiritual dimension, this kind of Transfiguration, which he simply sums up as follows in his diary in 1824: ‘My production is the result of my musical knowledge and my pain’ or, to quote a poem he wrote a little earlier:

‘When I wanted to sing love, it turned into pain.

when I wanted to sing pain, it turned into love.’

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May/June 2023

There’s real musicality here at the service of imaginative phrasing, with just enough added force to keep everything animated. A “Great” Symphony without longueurs is rare but this is one.

November 2022

For a persuasive period-instrument recording of these two great works that nevertheless takes nothing for granted, this may well now be the ideal choice.

Schubert: Transfiguration

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