Robert Schumann started his career as a composer of piano music and Lieder, and is still best known for his work in these genres. Intimidated by Beethoven’s legacy, as well as by his friend Felix Mendelssohn’s prolific output, Schumann long avoided the symphony. Spurred by his wife Clara, who was convinced that his imagination could not find sufficient scope on the piano, he eventually ventured four highly original symphonies. While the First (“Spring”) and Third (“Rhenish”) display a typically German-Romantic predilection for the picturesque, the Second bears the fruit of Schumann’s study of Bach counterpoint, while the solemn and sombre Fourth seems to provide a hint of the composer’s troubled state in the final years of his life. The works are presented here in an excellent performance by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster.
Tracklist
1. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – I. Andante un poco maestoso – Allegro molto vivace
2. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – II. Larghetto
3. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
4. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – IV. Allegro animato e grazioso
5. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – I. Sostenuto assai – Un poco più vivace – Allegro, ma non troppo
6. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
7. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – III. Adagio espressivo
8. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – IV. Allegro molto vivace
9. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – I. Lebhaft
10. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig
11. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – III. Nicht schnell
12. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – IV. Feierlich
13. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – V. Lebhaft
14. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – I. Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft
15. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam
16. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – III. Scherzo. Lebhaft
17. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – IV. Langsam – Lebhaft
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![Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir - Kodály: Te Deum, Psalmus Hungaricus - Bartók: Cantata Profana, Transylvanian Dances (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/11/28/hh850tfzm6l1b_600.jpg "Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir - Kodály: Te Deum, Psalmus Hungaricus - Bartók: Cantata Profana, Transylvanian Dances (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]")
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![Melody Moore, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir - Remembering Tebaldi (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/11/wqld9ktd0oh4b_600.jpg "Melody Moore, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir - Remembering Tebaldi (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]")
![NDR Radiophilharmonie, NDR Chor & Lawrence Foster - Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (Live) (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2019/10/IglK2kk.jpg "NDR Radiophilharmonie, NDR Chor & Lawrence Foster - Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (Live) (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Marc Coppey, Lawrence Foster - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2021/05/ZsiHMVk.jpg "Marc Coppey, Lawrence Foster - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")