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B'Rock Orchestra, Rene Jacobs, Tobias Moretti

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Schubert: Unfinished & Great Symphonies

Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 6

Schubert: Symphonies 4 and 5

Schubert: Symphonies 2 & 3

This is a DSD Bundle of the complete DSD cycle of Schubert symphonies with star conductor René Jacobs and the dynamic Belgian period instrument ensemble B’Rock Orchestra. This ambitious new project marked René Jacobs’ and B’Rock’s first collaboration with Pentatone, and was recorded from October 2018 to July 2022.

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Symphonies 1 & 6
With this recording, Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra lift out the maturity and depth of these two early works. Whereas the First has a more classical, bubbly quality, the Sixth shows Schubert’s inclination to musical Romanticism. At the same time, these symphonies have much in common: both display humour and joie de vivre, with “carnivalesque” allusions to early nineteenth-century Italian opera, but behind the happy façade lies a deeper layer, full of melancholy and bitterness. In that respect, these works fully capture Schubert’s personal life: that of a social, lively man, plagued by the knowledge of his fatal illness. They are performed on period instruments, transparent, but full of fire.

Symphonies 2 & 3
Jacobs approaches these pieces as a symphonic pair revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality and compositional approach. The former being serious, ambitious, aiming to “outdo” Beethoven, while the latter is deliberately un-heroic: light, lyrical, and full of Italianizing elements.

Symphonies 4 & 5
The Fourth is Schubert’s first symphony in a minor key and adumbrates a new harmonic worldview that Dvořák 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 more evident.

Unfinished & Great Symphonies
In his extensive liner notes, Jacobs develops a theory that the B Minor Symphony did not remain “unfinished”, but was deliberately left unfinished, because Schubert shaped its two movements in analogy to Mein Traum (My Dream),  an autobiographical narration in two parts, written in 1822, simultaneous to the creation of the symphony.

Rene Jacobs, Conductor
B’Rock Orchestra

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Release DateNovember 18, 2022

Schubert: Unfinished & Great Symphonies

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PTC5186894

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Erdo Groot

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Carl Schuurbiers

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De Singel, Antwerp, in December 2020

Release DateJuly 29, 2022

Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 6

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PTC5186707

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Erdo Groot

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Jean-Marie Geijsen

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Saal Innsbruck, Congress Messe Innsbruck, March 2018

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DSD 64

Release DateOctober 19, 2018

Schubert: Symphonies 4 and 5

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Erdo Groot (Polyhymnia International)

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Andreas Wolf (Symphony No. 4) & Carl Schuurbiers (Symphony No. 5)

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De Spil, Roeselare, Belgium, July 2019 (Symphony No. 4) and at Haus der Musik Innsbruck, Austria, February 2020 (Symphony No. 5).

Release DateAugust 27, 2021

Schubert: Symphonies 2 & 3

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Erdo Groot (Polyhymnia International B.V.)

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Andreas Wolf (Symphony No. 2) & Carl Schuurbiers (Symphony No. 3)

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De Spil, Roeselare, Belgium, July 2019 (Symphony No. 2) and at Haus der Musik Innsbruck, Austria, February 2020 (Symphony No. 3)

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Pyramix, Merging Technologies

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DXD

Release DateSeptember 17, 2020

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