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Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939) - Symphony No.4 In C Major

01 Allegro molto moderato-- 15:34
02 Adagio-- 15:11
03 Molto vivace-- 15:29
04 Allegro molto moderato 02:50

Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)

05 Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 20:53

TT: 70:04


Zubin Mehta conducts :

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in Sofiensaal, September 1971 (Schmidt)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in Royce Hall, UCLA, May 1968 (Schoenberg)


DECCA Enterprise 430-007 2 - Published August 1990 - ADD



http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/gather/cgi-bin/wwwboard/messages/153.html
\"If you want to get to know the music of Franz Schmidt, the place to begin is with the Fourth Symphony, composed in 1932-33 after the death, in childbed, of his only daughter, Emma. There are two particularly fine recordings of this work: one on Decca featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (in which Schmidt had been a cellist under Mahler\'s direction) conducted by Zubin Mehta in a 1972 analogue recording, and one by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Moest in a mid-90s digital recording. If you love the music of Bruckner you will love this work also, even though Schmidt writes in a far more advanced harmonic idiom (which borders, at times, on atonality). Schmidt\'s extensive experience as an orchestral cellist (he was also a virtuoso pianist and organist) gave him an insight into the orchestra unavailable to Bruckner, Brahms or Reger, and his skill as an orchestrator exceeds that of Mahler or Strauss. (There are too few opportunities to hear his works in the concert hall, but every time I have heard the Fourth Symphony live I have been utterly awed by the superlative skill of its orchestration.)

Ignore also anyone who says that Schmidt was a \"hopelessly conservative\" composer. His mature music contains some of the most extreme tonal music ever written (especially his second opera \"Fredigundis\", his Second String Quartet and his Third Symphony), and his harmonic idiom often resembles that of the jazz pianist Bill Evans at least as much as it does that of Brahms or Bruckner.

Schmidt disliked talking about his own music, preferring to let it speak for itself. As a first step, get one (or both) of the above-mentioned recordings of the Fourth Symphony, and find out for yourselves.\"


http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphony-No-2-Schmidt-No-4/dp/B00000422P
\"(...) perhaps the finest account of Franz Schmidt\'s Fourth Symphony ever recorded\"

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