Franz Schmidt: Complete Symphonies - Frankfurt Radio Symphony Paavo Jarvi - Music - DECCA - 0028948383368 - September 11, 2020
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Franz Schmidt: Complete Symphonies

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Paavo Jarvi

Franz Schmidt: Complete Symphonies

At a time when many of his contemporaries were exploring more fluid structures, Franz Schmidt while perhaps stretching tonal harmony to its limits, continued to embrace 19th-century form and achieved a highly personal synthesis of the diverse traditions of the Austro-German symphony. His language, rather than being wedded to a narrative of dissolution and tragedy is radiant and belligerently optimistic and reveals this scion of largely Hungarian forebears as the last great exponent of the style hongrois after Schubert, Liszt and Brahms.

His work having fallen from prominence, Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony's dazzling live performances of all four of his symphonies, and the famous Notre Dame Intermezzo, shine a new light on this fascinating oeuvre and also on an affable and genial soul, and reminds us of the constant need to reappraise and enrich our account of music during the first half of the 20th century.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 3
Released September 11, 2020
EAN/UPC 0028948383368
Label DECCA 4838336
Genre Classical
Dimensions 131 × 144 × 19 mm   ·   324 g
Conductor Paavo Jarvi
Orchestra Frankfurt Radio Symphony

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