Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Orfeo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4011790921129
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mendelssohn
Description
The second instalment of Jörg Widmann and the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s recordings of Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonies is devoted to what is known as the Fifth, in keeping with the upcoming celebrations to mark 500 years since the Reformation. In fact, from a chronological point of view, this is Mendelssohn’s second symphony, original conceived to mark the celebrations of 300 years since the Reformation’s Augsburg Confession of 1530. However, rehearsals descended into tumult, and the orchestra refused the former child prodigy, much to Mendelssohn’s distress. The following year the gifted composer applied, after the death of his mentor Carl Friedrich Zelter, to succeed him as Director of the Berlin Singakademie and, as part of his application, gave three concerts, one of which included the premiere of his ‘Symphony in Celebration of the Church Revolution’. The fact that his application was unsuccessful was traumatic for the young composer, and the symphony was not published until 1868, more than 20 years after his death, by his son Paul under the posthumous opus number 107.
Tracklisting
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Jorg Widmann; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Peter Ruzicka
Dunja Vejzovic; Martin Egel; Werner Hollweg; Reid Bunger; Olga Sandu; Wolfgang Witte; Robert Riener
Fritz Wunderlich; Ingeborg Hallstein; Naan Pöld; Hertha Töpper; Jean Cook; Karl Christian Kohn; Max
Szerying/Br So/Kubelik
