Schubert Symphony No. 9 by Philharmonia Orchestra

Franz Schubert

Philharmonia Orchestra

Schubert Symphony No. 9

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212046128
Catnr: SIGCD 461
Release date: 17 June 2016
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Label
Signum Classics

UPC
0635212046128

Catalogue number
SIGCD 461

Release date
17 June 2016

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About the album

This outstanding performance was recorded as part of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 70th concert season. Led by Honorary Conductor for Life Christoph von Dohnanyi, this recording was taken live at the Royal Festival Hall in October of 2015. Believed by many to be Schubert’s greatest symphony, this work is interpreted by Dohnanyi beautifully, and with grandeur and intensity.

Intense live-opname van "de Grote" Negende Symfonie van Schubert
Dit album zet de reeks beroemde live-opnames van het Philharmonia Orchestra voort met een opname uit de Royal Festival Hall als onderdeel van het 70-jarig jubileum. Deze uitvoering, onder leiding van eredirigent Christoph von Dohnányi, vangt de pracht en intensiteit van Schuberts laatste en grootste symfonie: zijn Negende Symfonie.

In maart 1824 schreef Franz Schubert in een brief dat hij zich voorbereidde op het componeren van “een grootse symfonie.” Dit werd zijn Negende Symfonie, die hij de Grote Symfonie in C groot noemde om hem te onderscheiden van zijn Zesde Symfonie, de Kleine Symfonie in C groot. ‘Grote’ kan zowel verwijzen naar de lengte als naar het majestueuze karakter van het werk. Schubert rondde de symfonie in 1826 af en stuurde hem op naar het Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wenen, die de orkestpartijen kopieerde en het werk doorspeelde, maar het desondanks als te lang en te ingewikkeld beschouwde. Tien jaar na de dood van de componist, in 1838, bezocht Robert Schumann Wenen, waar hij het manuscript van de Negende Symfonie inzag. Hij nam een kopie van het werk mee terug naar Leipzig, waar het een jaar later werd uitgevoerd onder leiding van Felix Mendelssohn. In zijn verslag van de uitvoering prees hij de symfonie om zijn “hemelse lengte”.

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Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia was founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, and has worked with a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century music. Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor in September 2021. The sixth person to hold the title, he is known for his expressive, balletic conducting style and irrepressible energy.
Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Philharmonia, and the Orchestra has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho and many others.
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in the heart of London, has been the Philharmonia’s home since 1995.
The Orchestra also has residencies at venues and festivals across England, each embracing a Learning & Engagement programme that empowers people to engage with, and participate in, orchestral music.
The Philharmonia’s international reputation is built in part on its extraordinary 76-year recording legacy, which in the last ten years has been built on by pioneering work with digital technology. The Orchestra’s installations and VR experiences have introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the symphony orchestra. The Philharmonia has won four Royal Philharmonic Society awards for its digital projects and audience engagement work.
The Philharmonia is the go-to orchestra for many film and videogame composers in the UK and Hollywood, and its music-making has been experienced by millions of cinema-goers and gamers. It has recorded around 150 soundtracks, with film credits stretching back to 1947.

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Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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