Schumann: Complete Symphonies Dresdner Philharmonie & Marek Janowski

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring":
• 1 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": I. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace - Animato 11:22
• 2 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": II. Larghetto 05:22
• 3 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": III. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Trio I & Trio II. Molto più vivace 05:45
• 4 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": IV. Allegro animato e grazioso - Andante - Poco a poco accelerando 08:32
• Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61:
• 5 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: I. Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo 12:32
• 6 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: II. Scherzo - Trio I - Trio 2 - Coda. Allegro vivace 07:19
• 7 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: III. Adagio espressivo 09:16
• 8 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: IV. Allegro molto vivace 07:58
• Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97:
• 9 Schumann: Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97: I. Lebhaft (Vivace) 09:06
• 10 Schumann: Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97: II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig (Molto moderato) 06:50
• 11 Schumann: Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97: III. Nicht schnell (Moderato) 04:53
• 12 Schumann: Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97: IV. Feierlich (Maestoso) 05:06
• 13 Schumann: Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97: V. Lebhaft (Vivace) 05:55
• Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120:
• 14 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: I. Ziemlich langsam (Lento assai) - Lebhaft (Vivace) 10:37
• 15 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam (Lento assai) 04:06
• 16 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: III. Scherzo - Trio. Lebhaft (Vivace) 07:05
• 17 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: IV. Langsam (Lento) - Lebhaft (Vivace) - Schneller (Più animato) - Presto 08:20
• Total Runtime 02:10:04

Info for Schumann: Complete Symphonies

Marek Janowski presents Schumann: Complete Symphonies, a comprehensive collection recorded together with the Dresdner Philharmonie. After a fruitful decade as a composer for piano and voice, Schumann then began writing symphonic works in 1841, marking a new phase in his life. Recorded between 2021 and 2023, Janowski interprets Schumann’s symphonies with great vitality and intensity in this release that celebrates the culmination of his tenure as chief conductor with the orchestra.

Marek Janowski is one of the most celebrated conductors of our time. This remarkable recording of Schumann’s complete symphonies follows 2023’s Schubert Unfinished & Great Symphonies (also with the Dresdner Philharmonie), complete recordings of Bruckner, Brahms and Beethoven’s symphonies, several works by Richard Strauss, and Wagner’s ten mature operas. From 2019 to 2023 Janowski was chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresdner Philharmonie, and also realized complete recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021), Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (both 2020) with the orchestra.

“When a German speaks of symphonies, he speaks of Beethoven: the two matters are regarded by him as one and inseparable, are his joy, his pride,” Robert Schumann stated in a mixture of respect and frustration. Beethoven, Beethoven, always Beethoven. There was simply no way around him. Every composer who attempted the symphonic genre after the “Ninth” was doomed to failure. The bar set by the Ode to Joy was simply too high; what could possibly come after that audacious integration of the human voice into the absolute-musical world of the symphony?

Several half-hearted, regional attempts were made by marginal composers before a new symphonic generation stepped into the limelight with Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Niels Gade and Robert Schumann.” Excerpt from the liner notes by Jörg Peter Urbach (translation: Calvin B. Cooper)

Dresdner Philharmonie
Marek Janowski, conductor

Please Note: we do not offer the 192 kHz version of this album, because there is no considerable or audible difference to the 96 kHz version!

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