Schubert, F.: Symphonies No. 4 Tragic and No. 5 Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

• Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417 Tragische
• 1I. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace09:57
• 2II. Andante11:15
• 3III. Menuetto: Allegro vivace04:00
• 4IV. Allegro10:25
• Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485
• 5I. Allegro07:40
• 6II. Andante con moto10:24
• 7III. Menuetto: Allegro molto05:12
• 8IV. Allegro vivace08:30
• Total Runtime01:07:23

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The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra has an extensive repertoire available on CD and new recordings on the PentaTone label are scheduled. Their leader Gordan Nikolic is a professor at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall and teaches at the Rotterdam Academy for Classical Music. He has a special interest in chamber music and is regularly invited to play at various festivals.

Franz Schubert is not considered a heavyweight with regard to the development of symphonic music. In fact, during his own lifetime his symphonies were hardly ever performed. The crowning glory of his oeuvre – the Great C-major Symphony – even had to wait until 1839 to receive its première, over 10 years after the death of the composer. Robert Schumann, who was the one to dust off this symphony, said the following of Schubert on that occasion: “The imaginative artist, whose paintbrush was drenched as much in moonbeams as in sunbeams, and who following Beethoven’s nine muses might well have borne us a tenth”. Though this remark mirrors Schumann’s admiration for Schubert as a symphonic composer, it also places his oeuvre in Beethoven’s shadow; a rather uncomfortable position for many a composer.

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Gordan Nikolic, director

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