Frankfurt Radio Symphony - Franz Schmidt - Complete Symphonies (2020) [Official Digital Download]

At a time when many of his contemporaries were exploring more fluid structures, Franz Schmidt while perhaps stretching tonal harmony to its limits, continued to embrace 19th-century form and achieved a highly personal synthesis of the diverse traditions of the Austro-German symphony. His language, rather than being wedded to a narrative of dissolution and tragedy is radiant and belligerently optimistic and reveals this scion of largely Hungarian forebears as the last great exponent of the style hongrois after Schubert, Liszt and Brahms.

His work having fallen from prominence, Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony's dazzling live performances of all four of his symphonies, and the famous Notre Dame Intermezzo, shine a new light on this fascinating oeuvre and also on an affable and genial soul, and reminds us of the constant need to reappraise and enrich our account of music during the first half of the 20th century.

“A composer of the same lavish style as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg, Schmidt fell from prominence having been a composer feted by the Nazis, but his output reminds us of the constant need to reappraise, rewrite and enrich our account of the music of the first half of the 20th century. Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony’s dazzling live performances in this album of all four of his symphonies and the famous Notre Dame Intermezzo, shine a light on this fascinating oeuvre.”

TRACKLIST

1. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - I. Sehr langsam - Sehr lebhaft
2. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - II. Langsam
3. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - III. Schnell und leicht
4. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - IV. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu schnell
5. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - I. Lebhaft
6. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - II. Allegretto con variazioni. Einfach und zart
7. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - III. Finale. Langsam
8. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - Intermezzo
9. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - I. Allegro molto moderato
10. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - II. Adagio
11. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
12. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - IV. Lento - Allegro vivace
13. Balázs Nemes - I. Allegro molto moderato - Passionato
14. Ulrich Edelmann - II. Adagio - Piu lento - Adagio
15. Frankfurt Radio Symphony - III. Molto Vivace
16. Balázs Nemes - IV. Tempo primo un poco sostenuto - Passionato - Tempo primo. Allegro molto moderato



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