B?Rock Orchestra Jacobs - Symphonies 2 & 3 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Includes Deck the Halls; All on a Christmas Morning; God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman; O Come All Ye Faithful; Hark the Herald Angels Sing; Jingle Bells, and more.

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 Dvorák 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, Inchtoo light a mind usually harbors a heart that is too heavy!Inch Looking closer beneath the surface, the cross-relations between the InchTragicInch Fourth and InchlighterInch Fifth become all the more evident. The players of the B'Rock Orchestra present these works on period instruments; transparent, but full of fire.

Netherlands Symphony Orchestra & Jan Willem De Vri - Symphonies 2 & 3 [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Jewel Case Packaging, O-Card Packaging date 03/13/2012