Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations
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Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 'Unfinished'
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I. Allegro moderato
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
14:41 | |||
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II. Andante con moto
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
9:57 | |||
Symphony No. 9 in C Major D. 944 'The Great'
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I. Andante · Allegro ma non troppo - Più mosso
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
15:26 | |||
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II. Andante con moto
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
13:55 | |||
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III. Allegro vivace - Trio - Scherzo da capo
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
16:27 | |||
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IV. Allegro vivace
Franz Schubert; Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations |
15:27 |
"Without fear of being indiscreet, we can now admit that we were thinking of devoting our energies to Schubert’s Symphonies 8 and 9 immediately after finishing our cycle of the complete Beethoven symphonies, which, after a year’s delay as a result of Covid, concluded with the concert on 15th December, 2021, at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Having said that, this idea of a symphonic cycle with Le Concert des Nations focusing on the principal composers of the 19th century began much earlier, in 1993 in fact, when we were preparing Beethoven’s Third and Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga’s Great Symphony for the recording we made in January, 1994. Unfortunately, lack of funding on the part of our recording label AUVIDIS forced us to shelve the project. This was one of the reasons why we decided to create our own recording label ALIA VOX in 1997.
However, it was not until 2017 that we were able to resume our idea of a major symphonic and choral cycle with the concerts and recordings of Mozart’s last three symphonies, which we began to prepare and record in 2017 and finished in June 2018. With the establishment of our major Academies for young professional musicians in the spring of 2019 we were able to start work on preparing Beethoven’s complete symphonies, a heroic and at the same time wonderful project, which, notwithstanding Covid, culminated in November, 2021, with the release of the album comprising the last four symphonies. During the Professional Academies in the summer of 2021, just after having spent two intense years in the company of Beethoven, we turned our attention to Franz Schubert’s Symphonies 8 and 9 with our period-instrument orchestra Le Concert des Nations, which brings together more than 60 professional musicians from all over Europe and other countries around the world, including young professional musicians specialising in performance using period instruments.
While what struck us the most about Beethoven’s creative process was his extraordinary imagination and revolutionary inspiration, in the case of Schubert it was the composer’s intimate and fraternal relationship with suffering and death that we found most moving. This explains why, in the creative process of Schubert’s musical language, we never fail to be amazed by his capacity to engage with that essentially inward, spiritual dimension, that transfiguration, which he sums up so simply in a sentence from his diary in March, 1824: 'My works are the fruit of my musical knowledge and my pain' [...]"
- Jordi Savall
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Alia Vox Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.12 -0.29 to -0.04 | -22.16 -24.72 to -20.07 | -17.83 -21.10 to -15.00 | 14 11 to 16 | |
1 | I. Allegro moderato | -0.09 | -20.07 | -15.0 | 11 |
2 | II. Andante con moto | -0.10 | -22.49 | -17.2 | 13 |
3 | I. Andante · Allegro ma non troppo - Più mosso | -0.10 | -21.37 | -17.0 | 14 |
4 | II. Andante con moto | -0.04 | -24.72 | -20.5 | 16 |
5 | III. Allegro vivace - Trio - Scherzo da capo | -0.29 | -24.18 | -21.1 | 15 |
6 | IV. Allegro vivace | -0.09 | -20.13 | -16.2 | 13 |