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F ranz S chubert
Franz Schubert • Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 & 4 Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Philippe Herreweghe
S ymphonies N o . 1, 3 &4 Royal Flemish Philharmonic Philippe Herreweghe 2CD tt: cd1: 50’02 — cd2: 32’13
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The Collegium Vocale Gent, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic and Philippe Herreweghe join forces once again for a monument of the sacred choral repertoire: Although Schubert’s earliest symphonies are sometimes AntonínFranz Dvorák’s Requiem, Op. 89. This work, dating considered youthful works of a composer still learning his trade, from 1890, is one of those that marked a new phase they nonetheless attestmusical to a genius of symphonic construction such in the composer’s creation, in which he recogas few musicians could boast at, respectively, 16 (Symphony No. 1), nized himself ‘as much a poet as well as a musician’. In 18 (Symphony No. 3) or 19 years of age (Symphony No. 4). Despite addition, this beginnings, reveals theSchubert veritable nature of a sporadically composer these promising would be only without during constraint, probably being neither commispublished his lifetime – approximately oneatenth of his total andoccasional primarily his liederPhilippe –, and hisHerreweghe symphonic works sionoutput nor an work. ofwould not be printed until sixty years after his death. fers us an interpretation as dense and concentrated as Here, Philippeof Herreweghe and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic the writing this masterpiece requires.
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pay a superb tribute to these works of the composer that are less well known and rarely recorded, in interpretations of refinement, precision and sensitivity.
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