Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Jacobs, B'Rock Orchestra

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Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s...
Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony. Just as with the Second and Third, Jacobs approaches these works as a symphonic pair, revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality and compositional approach. The Fourth is Schubert’s first symphony in a minor key, and adumbrates a totally new harmonic worldview that Dvorák associated with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. On the contrary, the Fifth sounds Mozartian and cheerful, although that light-heartedness is only an appearance, as is so often the case in Schubert’s music. In the composer’s words, “too light a mind usually harbors a heart that is too heavy!” Looking closer beneath the surface, the cross-relations between the “Tragic” Fourth and “lighter” Fifth become all the more evident. The players of the B’Rock Orchestra present these works on period instruments; transparent, but full of fire.


Product Description:

  • Release Date: August 27, 2021


  • UPC: 827949085666


  • Catalog Number: PTC5186856


  • Label: PENTATONE


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: Romantic


  • Composer: Franz Schubert


  • Conductor: René Jacobs


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: B'Rock


  • Performer: Jacobs