Schubert - Transfiguration: Symphonies 8 & 9 | Alia Vox AVSA9950

Schubert - Transfiguration: Symphonies 8 & 9

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Label: Alia Vox

Cat No: AVSA9950

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th September 2022

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About

Jordi Savall releases his first Schubert album, following a recording of Beethoven’s complete symphonies which largely contributed to renew our vision of the early Romantic repertoire. The Catalan maestro delivers a recording freed from the weight of past traditions to underline the dynamics, the section balance and the timbres that are required in this repertoire. Jordi Savall decided to entitle this album Transfiguration, because, as he explains, we are always astonished at Schubert’s ability to reach this essentially internal and spiritual dimension, this kind of Transfiguration, which he simply sums up as follows in his diary in 1824: ‘My production is the result of my musical knowledge and my pain’ or, to quote a poem he wrote a little earlier:

‘When I wanted to sing love, it turned into pain.
when I wanted to sing pain, it turned into love.’

Reviews

The ‘Great’ C major is brought to life in all its moods, with due appreciation of its expansiveness but without stinting on the opportunity to let the multiplicity of accents and sforzandos really bite. ... The Unfinished is presented as a satisfying two-movement closed form, in contrast to Jacobs’s open-ended reading, which seemed to imply the need for a scherzo and finale. For a persuasive period-instrument recording of these two great works that nevertheless takes nothing for granted, this may well now be the ideal choice.  David Threasher
Gramophone November 2022
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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