Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 (with Richard Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside)
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FRANZ SCHMIDT
Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 (with Richard Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside)
Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Semyon Bychkov
[ Sony Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 10 August 2017
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Franz Schmidt was a cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra himself and he allowed the orchestra to premiere his symphony in 1913, which since then belongs in the orchestra's main repertoire.
With Semyon Bychkov, they are a proven team to champion Schmidt's Symphony…
The second symphony is the most brilliant and extroverted one with the largest instrumentation.
The Strauss 'Dreaming by the Fireside' is a famous intermezzo from the same-named opera by Strauss.
On this album, the work is performed by The Strauss Orchestra.
"With euphonious finesse and nuanced orchestral sonorities, his score - surely a masterpiece of fin-de-siècle Vienna - is unsurpassed by any orchestral work of his time. It is interpreted here with a comfortable familiarity that nonetheless never sounds routine." FonoForum, June 2017 *****
"This is a golden performance…the opening is a transparent babbling brook…strings sweep forward in far from generic melody…[the central variations] balance sweetness with will-o'-the-wisp fantasy until the climatic variation…the finale builds in expressive counterpoint towards a great chorale…this is down on my list of the best discs of 2017 already, and it will take some toppling from first place" BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, July 2017 *****
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2018 Finalist - Orchestral
"It's as apparent here as much as it was in [the Proms performance] the amount of affection with which both orchestra and conductor approach this work...this new recording makes a persuasive case for a work of considerable beauty. It's an important addition to the catalogue. A gentle, tender account of Strauss's most famous Intermezzo interlude makes a charming if hardly generous coupling." Gramophone Magazine, July 2017
Tracks:
Schmidt, F:
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major
Strauss, R:
Träumerei am Kamin (from Intermezzo)
