Schubert: The Complete Symphonies

Schubert: The Complete Symphonies

Schubert: The Complete Symphonies
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Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
Conductor: Frans Brüggen
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82: 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace
  2. Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82: 2. Andante
  3. Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82: 3. Allegro
  4. Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82: 4. Allegro vivace
  5. Symphony No. 4 in C minor ('Tragic'), D. 417: 1. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace
  6. Symphony No. 4 in C minor ('Tragic'), D. 417: 2. Andante
  7. Symphony No. 4 in C minor ('Tragic'), D. 417: 3. Menuetto: Allegro vivace - Trio
  8. Symphony No. 4 in C minor ('Tragic'), D. 417: 4. Allegro
Music CD 2
  1. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125: 1. Largo - Allegro vivace
  2. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125: 2. Andante
  3. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125: 3. Menuetto: Allegro vivace - Trio
  4. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125: 4. Presto vivace
  5. Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200: 1. Adagio maestoso - Allegro con brio
  6. Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200: 2. Allegretto
  7. Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200: 3. Menuetto: Vivace - Trio
  8. Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200: 4. Presto vivace
  9. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485: 1. Allegro
  10. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485: 2. Andante con moto
  11. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485: 3. Menuetto: Allegro molto - Trio
  12. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485: 4. Allegro vivace
Music CD 3
  1. Symphony No. 8 in B minor ('Unfinished'), D. 759: 1. Allegro moderato
  2. Symphony No. 8 in B minor ('Unfinished'), D. 759: 2. Andante con moto
  3. Symphony No. 6 in C major ('Little C Major'), D. 589: 1. Adagio - Allegro
  4. Symphony No. 6 in C major ('Little C Major'), D. 589: 2. Andante
  5. Symphony No. 6 in C major ('Little C Major'), D. 589: 3. Scherzo: Presto - Trio
  6. Symphony No. 6 in C major ('Little C Major'), D. 589: 4. Allegro moderato
Music CD 4
  1. Symphony No. 9 in C major ('The Great'), D. 944: 1. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo
  2. Symphony No. 9 in C major ('The Great'), D. 944: 2. Andante con moto
  3. Symphony No. 9 in C major ('The Great'), D. 944: 3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  4. Symphony No. 9 in C major ('The Great'), D. 944: 4. Allegro vivace

Music reviews of Schubert: The Complete Symphonies

Music Review: Two and a Half Masterpieces!
Rating: 5 Stars

That's what Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced in his scant 31 years. I'm speaking only of his symphonies; his masterpieces in other genres number in the dozens. The GREAT Schubert symphonies are #6 and #9, plus the two ineffable movements of the Unfinished #8; I'm sure there are dyed-in-the-wool Schubert fans who will clamor for the greatness of one or another of the others, but to my ears they are all essentially efforts to 'catch up' with Joseph Haydn, which he achieved in #4. Then, in #6 Schubert changed his sites and caught up with Beethoven but couldn't trust his own accomplishment, while in #9 he caught up with God.

Franz Bruggen gives us a Haydnesque reading of symphonies 1-5 - with quick-pulsed galante tempi and lots of fresh air in the instrumental textures, just the sort of effects that can only be captured on period instruments played with historical sensibilities. Played any other way, especially 'milked' for romantic agonies, they can and usually do sound quite awkward. But making the minor works enjoyable isn't the main thrust of Bruggen's interpretation. His goal is, as it should be, to 'realize' the full genius of the great two-and-a-half. And that's what he does, by the most direct route of letting the music sing for itself. Schubert's symphonies sag when overinterpreted. Bruggen conducts for clarity of colors and for thematic momentum. I don't feel any compulsion to justify the use of historical instruments for this performance; I strongly suspect that most listeners who come to these recordings with a stubborn bias against 'original' instruments wouldn't have the ears to recognize what they were hearing if they hadn't read the label first. Strangely enough, what they might notice would be the crispness of timpani, which is mostly just a matter of different mallets. More experienced listeners will be pleased by the special timbres of the winds, especially the flutes which sound sweeter and less strident, and the unmuffled horns. One thing no one will really hear: any faulty tuning! In fact, audible tuning is the prime advantage of the "historically informed" orchestra, once the forces are restricted to appropriate numbers and the strings learn to tune by ear, without smudgy vibrato, rather than by committee consensus.

I have a whole raft of Schubert #9s, but Bruggen's is the one I usually choose when I long to hear The Great.
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