Swedish Chamber Orchestra - The Symphonies & Overtures - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

It was only after his death that Franz Schubert's symphonic works made an impact in music history. In fact, the first public performance of any of Schubert's symphonies took place at a memorial concert held a few weeks after the composer had passed away, on 19th November 1828. The work that was heard at that occasion was Symphony No.6, D589, the 'Little C major', while the two undisputed master works of the series - the 'Great C major' and the 'Unfinished' - had to wait until 1838 and 1865, respectively, before being performed. The six symphonies that precede them in the list of completed works were all composed between 1813 and 1818, while Schubert was still only 21 years of age. In a style above all oriented on Haydn and Mozart, they are youthful in the best sense of the word and display a disarming freshness which the present performances convey to perfection. The four discs gathered here were released singly between 2010 and 2014, receiving critical acclaim in the international music press the reviewer in The Daily Telegraph (UK) described the experience as 'having a layer of varnish removed from a much-loved painting' while his colleague in Fanfare wrote that the approach by Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra 'changes the landscape', proposing that the cycle 'could become a first choice among any available.' The set also include some shorter orchestral works, among them the much-loved Rosamunde Overture.

Having begun their collaboration in 1997, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and it's conductor laureate Thomas Dausgaard have developed an unusually tight partnership. Nowhere is this demonstrated more clearly than in their cycles of the symphonies of Schumann, Schubert and, most recently, Brahms - performances which have been characterized by reviewers as variously 'fresh', 'vivid', 'transparent' and 'invigorating'. Of Mendelssohn the team has previously recorded the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a described as 'capturing Mendelssohn's inimitable spirit' on the website Crescendo. The same disc included The Hebrides, and now the SCO and Dausgaard return to Scotland, with Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. This was begun in 1829, after a stay in London during which the composer conducted his Symphony No. 1, also included on this disc. Mendelssohn's imagination was often fired by impressions from nature, and Scotland was the Romantic landscape par excellence, celebrated for it's rugged Highland scenery and melancholy tunes. 'I think that today I found the beginning of my 'Scottish' Symphony', he wrote to his parents after a visit to the ruined chapel at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. It took more than a decade for him to complete the symphony - but ever since it's first performance, in 1842, it has been a staple of the symphonic repertoire.

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