Schubert: Unfinished and Great Symphony B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great":
• 1 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great": I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo - Più moto 16:06
• 2 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great": II. Andante con moto 13:24
• 3 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio 15:59
• 4 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great": IV. Finale. Allegro vivace 15:49
• Mein Traum:
• 5 Schubert: "Mein Traum": Pt. 1 03:08
• Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished":
• 6 Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": I. Allegro moderato 13:28
• Mein Traum:
• 7 Schubert: "Mein Traum": Pt. 2 01:25
• Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished":
• 8 Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": II. Andante con moto 08:23
• Total Runtime 01:27:42

Info for Schubert: Unfinished and Great Symphony

Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra complete their Schubert cycle on Pentatone with the composer's two most famous symphonies, the Unfinished and Great. In his extensive liner notes, Jacobs develops a theory that the B Minor Symphony did not remain "unfinished", but was deliberately left unfinished, because Schubert shaped it's two movements in analogy to Mein Traum (My Dream), an autobiographical narration in two parts, written in 1822, simultaneous to the creation of the symphony. While the first half of Mein Traum tells about his mother's decease and his problematic relationship to his father, the second part enters a magical, Romantic realm, and eventually brings a reconciliation with his father. On this recording, the two parts of the narration precede the two movements of the Unfinished symphony, and are recited by Tobias Moretti. Jacobs argues that, after the dream-inspired Unfinished, the Great C Major Symphony, with it's solemn character and sublime dimensions, served as a liberation for Schubert. Presenting these contrasting works forms a fitting apotheosis to a cycle that has been designed from the onset as a series of symphonic pairs. The players of the B'Rock Orchestra present these works on period instruments; transparent, but full of fire.

B'Rock Orchestra
René Jacobs, conductor

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