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Paavo Järvi joins his father Neeme as one of the few conductors to record all four symphonies by Austrian composer Franz Schmidt. Symphony No. 4
Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 2 has been in the Vienna Philharmonic’s repertory since its premiere under the composer’s baton in 1913. Knowing this, and with
Franz Schmidt was an inconsistent composer, and his Variations on a Hussar’s Song is an odd work. The best thing about it is the song;
Set far back in the acoustic of the large Beethovenhalle (the SACD enhances the sense of space), the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra in this recording sounds
What an odd disc this is. When later Viennese composers write self-consciously referential works on themes of their illustrious predecessors, it often becomes painfully obvious
Franz Schmidt composed his Third Symphony in 1927/28, entering it in the Columbia Gramophone Co.’s “tribute to Schubert” competition, where it came in second to
That Franz Schmidt’s 1899 Symphony No. 1 met with greater success than Mahler’s contemporaneous Symphonies Nos. 1-3 seems surprising to us today, until we consider
It’s so good to see that new releases on SACD aren’t limited to standard repertoire, and this excellent performance of Franz Schmidt’s masterful Fourth Symphony
