B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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 Dvořák 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, “too light a mind usually harbours a heart that is too heavy!” Looking closer beneath the surface, the cross-relations between the “Tragic” Fourth and “lighter” Fifth become all the more evident. The players of the B’Rock Orchestra present these works on period instruments; transparent, but full of fire.

Tracklist:
1. Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": I. Adagio molto - Allegro vivace (09:00)
2. Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": II. Andante (08:29)
3. Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace (03:09)
4. Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic": IV. Allegro (10:50)
5. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: I. Allegro (07:09)
6. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante con moto (08:15)
7. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro molto (05:20)
8. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: IV. Allegro vivace (07:06)


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