Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are the latest team to make them sound like grown-up scores, worthwhile in their own right. Dausgaard's orchestra is small - 38 players - buit it...
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard
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Awards:
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are the latest team to make them sound like grown-up scores, worthwhile in their own right. Dausgaard's orchestra is small - 38 players - buit it...
About
The SCO’s accounts of the ‘Unfinished’ and ‘Great C major’ Symphonies made critics sit up and take notice: ‘a consistently refreshing view of both masterpieces’ was the verdict of Gramophone, with the Daily Telegraph comparing the result to ‘having a layer of varnish removed from a much-loved painting’.
These three Symphonies were all composed before Schubert was twenty and were probably intended for small student or private orchestras. This makes them ideal candidates for the small but deft treatment of the SCO along with the intricate and stylish details brought out by Dausgaard.
Contents and tracklist
Work length23:14
I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro con brio
Track length8:36
II. Allegretto
Track length4:11
III. Menuetto. Vivace
Track length3:49
IV. Presto vivace
Track length6:38
Work length29:38
I. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace
Track length8:50
II. Andante
Track length7:31
III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace
Track length2:51
IV. Allegro
Track length10:26
Work length28:00
I. Allegro
Track length6:27
II. Andante con moto
Track length8:54
III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
Track length4:28
IV. Allegro vivace
Track length8:11
Awards and reviews
May 2014
Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are the latest team to make them sound like grown-up scores, worthwhile in their own right. Dausgaard's orchestra is small - 38 players - buit it punches above its weight, bringing muscle to Schubert's early, Classical-style writing...Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are never less than invigorating.
May 2014
Images of urbane Schubert disappear at the opening fortissimo chord of No. 3...Expect this standard of musicianship in the other movements too...there is no subduing the force of Dausgaard's interpretation.
23rd March 2014
Even if not in his mature style, and showing the influence of Rossini, as well as of Haydn and Mozart, they are pure Schubert, not least in harmony and scoring, and they stand up well to the high-powered approach of Dausgaard and the splendid Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
