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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2018
- Franz Schmidt - Symphony no. 2 (composed 1911 - 1913)
I. Lebhaft: 0:13
II. Allegretto con variazioni. Einfach und zart: 15:46
III. Finale: 35:12
Vassily Sinaisky conducting the Malmö Symphony Orchestra
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Manuscript from the Austrian National Library
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Recording: www.amazon.com/Schmidt-Sympho...
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Wow, it looks like we have a rising star here...
A great late-romantic work. The finale is sublime, difficult to play for sure. Schmidt I think has a distinct, wonderful musical personality. Some Roma influence in his music 23:33
This has more "Schwung" and brightness than no. 1, and goes further in harmony and instrumentation. Sounds like Bruckner (but more modern). Not a little R. Strauss and Reger, some Wagner, even some Debussy at moments... And it reminds also of Hugo Alfvén, Sweden´s best late-romantic symphony composer (his no 2-4).
Inventive 2:nd movement, that combines variations with menuetto (and slow movement). Fugue-like finale (like Bruckner's 5th or Alfvén's 2nd), in sections, building up to a grandiose stretto at the end. Interesting to see his own hand-writing too. Great!
It's a ferociously complex score. I can follow most scores of the period, including Strauss, Mahler, Reger, early Schoenberg, etc., but this one defeats me every time!
It is a wonderful score to study at one's leisure, though, without being under pressure to follow it in real time. I admire anyone who even attempts to conduct it, even if they crash and burn!
Ssometimes it sounds like Elgar....He was not performed in the US, I heard, because his music was used by the Nazis in WWII...but he died before the war started...but think it was used like Wagner's music. Franz Schmitt was kept out until recently.
this symphony and the 4th were performed in the Proms recently!
I wish some opera directors would have the ideo to put on his marvellous opera "Notre-Dame", which has been absent from the stages for far too long !!
The story how Schmidt as a very ill man came under the influence of Nazi ideology a short time before his death can be read in this article (in German) about oboist, composer and writer Alexander Wunderer, who was Schmidt's best friend for many years until their friendship broke up in autumn 1938 because of political differences:
docplayer.org/28352449-Ehe-die-nazis-in-oesterreich-einmarschierten-hat.html
I think Elgar would have been very in sympathy with Franz Schmidt. Just because you sit by your 19th century fireside and view the future with a certain amount of foreboding doesn't mean that you have nothing to say as a composer.
Elgar's Second Symphony was also in E flat, as it happens.
That final movement is incredible! Are you planning on uploading Symphony No. 3?
yes
If you enjoy Franz Schmidt you might be interested in these interviews: th-cam.com/video/jkCSTO8QClc/w-d-xo.html