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The Complete Symphonies (4 CD-set)
Franz Schubert

Residentie Orkest The Hague | Jan Willem de Vriend

The Complete Symphonies (4 CD-set)

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917299724
Catnr: CC 72997
Release date: 09 August 2024
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Challenge Classics
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0608917299724
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CC 72997
Release date
09 August 2024

"Clearly a worthwhile discovery where you don't necessarily expect it. This applies especially to de Vriend's interpretation of Schubert's early symphonies."

BR Klassik, 10-8-2024
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We at Challenge Classics are proud to present the complete edition of Schubert's symphonies in the interpretation offered by Jan Willem de Vriend conducting the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.
Wir von Challenge Classics sind stolz darauf, die Gesamtausgabe von Schuberts Sinfonien in der Interpretation von Jan Willem de Vriend, der das Residentie Orkest Den Haag dirigiert, zu präsentieren.

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Residentie Orkest The Hague

Residentie Orkest The Hague proves that even in the 21st century, symphonic music can still be meaningful to large and diverse audiences. Its reputation as one of the finest orchestras in Europe makes it an appropriate figurehead for The Hague as a cosmopolitan city of justice, peace, and culture. The orchestra performs concert series in the Zuiderstrandtheater in Scheveningen and in addition performs at venues such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht and De Doelen in Rotterdam. Special crossover and innovative productions are also provided at The Hague’s prominent pop venue Paard van Troje throughout the season. The Residentie Orkest performs regularly at various other major concert halls abroad. Tours have brought the orchestra to New York, Boston, Chicago, London and...
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Residentie Orkest The Hague proves that even in the 21st century, symphonic music can still be meaningful to large and diverse audiences. Its reputation as one of the finest orchestras in Europe makes it an appropriate figurehead for The Hague as a cosmopolitan city of justice, peace, and culture. The orchestra performs concert series in the Zuiderstrandtheater in Scheveningen and in addition performs at venues such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht and De Doelen in Rotterdam. Special crossover and innovative productions are also provided at The Hague’s prominent pop venue Paard van Troje throughout the season. The Residentie Orkest performs regularly at various other major concert halls abroad. Tours have brought the orchestra to New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Vienna amongst others and the orchestra also performed in countries like Japan, China, Germany, France and South America. There are also many prolific collaborations with a wide range of partners, including the Dutch National Theatre, Gemeentemuseum and the Dutch National Opera. Recent seasons have seen a much acclaimed production of Messiaen’s rarely performed opera Saint François d’Asisse and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.

A rich history Since its first concert in 1904, the Residentie Orkest has developed into one of the prominent symphony orchestras of The Netherlands. Founded by Dr Henri Viotta, who was also its first principal conductor, it quickly attracted composers like Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Max Reger, Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith and Vincent d’Indy. Guest conductors included Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein and Hans Knappertsbusch.

After World War II, Willem van Otterloo was appointed chief conductor. He led the orchestra from 1949 to 1973 and built a strong reputation by combining high-quality performances with adventurous programming. Van Otterloo was succeeded by Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden and Neeme Järvi.

Chief conductor Starting season 2018/2019 Nicholas Collon is chief conductor and artistic advisor of the Residentie Orkest. Richard Egarr will join the orchestra as principal guest conductor in 2019. Until the summer of 2019 Jan Willem de Vriend will act as principal conductor.


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Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

Jan Willem de Vriend, designated “a godsend from the Netherlands” by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, is driven by the pioneering spirit of historically informed perfomance practice. As music director of the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, which he founded in 1982, he specialised in repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, reviving a wealth of rarely heard works through historically informed performances on modern instruments, praised by Gramophone magazine for their “technical finesse and a lively feeling for characterization”. An award-winner for his creative contribution to classical music, Jan Willem de Vriend has more than 50,000 followers on Spotify and is in demand as a conductor around the world, appearing regularly with such orchestras as the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest...
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Jan Willem de Vriend, designated “a godsend from the Netherlands” by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, is driven by the pioneering spirit of historically informed perfomance practice. As music director of the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, which he founded in 1982, he specialised in repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, reviving a wealth of rarely heard works through historically informed performances on modern instruments, praised by Gramophone magazine for their “technical finesse and a lively feeling for characterization”.
An award-winner for his creative contribution to classical music, Jan Willem de Vriend has more than 50,000 followers on Spotify and is in demand as a conductor around the world, appearing regularly with such orchestras as the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Belgian National Orchestra, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre National de Lyon, Bergen Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of Netherlands Radio and Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt Radio Symphony), Melbourne Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic. He is Principal Conductor Designate of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic and Orchestre National de Lille, and former Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and the Brabant Orchestra.
For the Challenge Classics label, de Vriend and the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra have recorded the complete Mendelssohn symphonies and all Beethoven’s symphonies and concertos with, among others, pianist Hannes Minnaar and violinist Liza Ferschtman. De Vriend’s interpretation of the Symphony No 7 prompted Classic FM to admire “a bounding flair that does real justice to the composer’s capacity for joy”. A further landmark of his recorded catalogue is his complete recording of the Schubert symphonies with the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.
De Vriend’s collaborative spirit is equally evident in his work for the stage, notably with opera director Eva Buchmann and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. In addition to works by Monteverdi, Haydn, Handel and Telemann, their productions in Europe and the USA have included staged versions of Bach’s ‘Hunting’ and ‘Coffee’ Cantatas at the Bachfest Leipzig, and operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Cherubini, among them Mozart’s Don Giovanni und Rossini’s La gazzetta, both toured in Switzerland. De Vriend has also conducted operatic productions in Amsterdam (with the Nederlandse Reisopera), Barcelona, Strasbourg, Lucerne, Schwetzingen and Bergen.

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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...
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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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Clearly a worthwhile discovery where you don't necessarily expect it. This applies especially to de Vriend's interpretation of Schubert's early symphonies.
BR Klassik, 10-8-2024

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Disc #1
01.
Symphony No. 2 D. 125: I. Largo – Allegro vivace
10:41
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
02.
Symphony No. 2 D. 125: II. Andante
07:55
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
03.
Symphony No. 2 D. 125: III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace ? Trio
03:01
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
04.
Symphony No. 2 D. 125: IV. Presto
05:48
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
05.
Symphony No. 4 D. 417 'Tragic': I. Adagio molto – Allegro vivace
09:40
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
06.
Symphony No. 4 D. 417 'Tragic': II. Andante
08:47
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
07.
Symphony No. 4 D. 417 'Tragic': III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace – Trio
03:20
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
08.
Symphony No. 4 D. 417 'Tragic': IV. Allegro
07:29
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague

Disc #2
01.
Symphony No.1 D.82: I. Adagio – Allegro vivace
11:42
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
02.
Symphony No.1 D.82: II. Andante
05:46
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
03.
Symphony No.1 D.82: III. Menuetto. Allegro – Trio
03:49
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
04.
Symphony No.1 D.82: IV. Allegro vivace
05:53
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
05.
Symphony No.3 D.200: I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con brio
08:42
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
06.
Symphony No.3 D.200: II. Allegretto
03:43
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
07.
Symphony No.3 D.200: III. Menuetto. Vivace – Trio
03:39
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08.
Symphony No.3 D.200: IV. Presto vivace
06:17
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
09.
Symphony No.8 D.759: I. Allegro moderato
14:40
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
10.
Symphony No.8 D.759: II. Andante con moto
09:35
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague

Disc #3
01.
Symphony No. 9, D. 944: Andante – Allegro, ma non troppo — Più moto
14:54
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
02.
Symphony No. 9, D. 944: Andante con moto
13:05
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
03.
Symphony No. 9, D. 944: Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio
14:00
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague
04.
Symphony No. 9, D. 944: Allegro vivace
15:08
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague

Disc #4
01.
Symphony No. 5 D. 485: Allegro
07:26
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
02.
Symphony No. 5 D. 485: Andante con moto
09:33
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
03.
Symphony No. 5 D. 485: Menuetto. Allegro molto
04:59
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
04.
Symphony No. 5 D. 485: Allegro vivace
08:50
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
05.
Symphony No. 6 D. 589: Adagio - Allegro
09:14
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
06.
Symphony No. 6 D. 589: Andante
05:43
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
07.
Symphony No. 6 D. 589: Scherzo. Presto - Più lento
06:11
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
08.
Symphony No. 6 D. 589: Allegro moderato
09:26
(Franz Schubert) Residentie Orkest The Hague, Residentie Orkest The Hague
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