Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Jacobs, B'Rock Orchestra

$17.99
Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
August 27, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT, FRANZ
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      B?Rock Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Jacobs
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 27, 2021
    • UPC
      827949085666
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186856
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

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, “too light a mind usually harbors 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.