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Jan Willem de Vriend, Residentie Orkest The Hague – Schubert: The Complete Symphonies Vol. 3: Symphony No.9, D.944 (2020)
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For about 150 years it was believed that Schubert composed his Ninth Symphony in 1828, not long before his death but, musical scholarship being a continuous process, this theory was later disproved. It was discovered in the late 20th century that in fact he composed most of this work three years earlier and revised it in 1826 and 1827. Following a period of poor health, 1825 was a better year for Schubert, while his finances were also improved.
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Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jan Willem de Vriend – The Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4: Symphony No. 5, D. 485 – Symphony No. 6, D. 589 (2022)
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Schubert’s musical ideas sometimes bear a family resemblance to themes by Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven, but nevertheless his own style was already precociously developed. One would not mistake his Fifth Symphony of 1816 for the work of any other composer, though its difference in character from the Fourth Symphony is equally striking. Here, omitting clarinets, trumpets or timpani, Schubert uses a reduced orchestration in comparison with his previous symphonies.

Schubert began his Sixth Symphony in October 1817 and completed it in the following February. The Sixth Symphony represents a sideways step in Schubert’s symphonic development, a digression which may be explained by the phenomenal popularity of Rossini. At this time Rossini’s operas were being received with tremendous enthusiasm in Vienna. Keen to earn a living from his compositions, Schubert now emulated aspects of the style which was enjoying such vogue.
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Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jan Willem de Vriend – Schubert : The Complete Symphonies Vol. 2 (Nos. 1, 3, 8) (2019)
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This is the second volume in de Vriend’s complete survey of Schubert’s symphonies and includes two youth symphonies (nos. 1 and 3) and the masterpiece that is the “Unfinished” Symphony No.8.

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