Schubert: Symphonies 4 & 5 BRock Orchestra & René Jacobs

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic":
• 1 Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": I. Adagio molto – Allegro vivace 09:00
• 2 Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": II. Andante 08:29
• 3 Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace 03:09
• 4 Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": IV. Allegro 10:50
• Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485:
• 5 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: I. Allegro 07:09
• 6 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante con moto 08:15
• 7 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro molto 05:20
• 8 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: IV. Allegro vivace 07:06
• Total Runtime 59:18

Info for Schubert: Symphonies 4 & 5

Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony. Just as with the Second and Third, Jacobs approaches these works as a symphonic pair, revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality and compositional approach. The Fourth is Schubert’s first symphony in a minor key, and adumbrates a totally new harmonic worldview that Dvořák associated with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. On the contrary, the Fifth sounds Mozartian and cheerful, although that light-heartedness is only an appearance, as is so often the case in Schubert’s music. In the composer’s words, “too light a mind usually harbours a heart that is too heavy!” Looking closer beneath the surface, the cross-relations between the “Tragic” Fourth and “lighter” Fifth become all the more evident. The players of the B’Rock Orchestra present these works on period instruments; transparent, but full of fire.

B'Rock Orchestra
Rene Jacobs, conductor

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