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Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8; ‘conductors in Rehearsal’ – Leonard Bernstein Rehearses With the Brso (in German) Leonard Bernstein has conducted regularly in Munich since the 1980s. It was then that he came to appreciate and love the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in particular. After an engagement in October 1976, when Bernstein appeared with a program dedicated exclusively to Beethoven, the series of annual concerts began in 1983. in 1987, he rehearsed Franz Schubert’s Great C Major Symphony, which was performed in the Congress Hall of the Deutsches Museum. This CD from BR-KLASSIK not only presents the live recording of this concert event – it also includes a rehearsal recording on a bonus CD “Conductors at the Rehearsal”, which has been preserved in the Bavarian Radio sound archive. Bernstein’s warm tone in astonishingly good German is particularly surprising. Franz Schubert most probably composed his symphony in Bad Gastein in the summer of 1825. Chronologically speaking, it is his eighth symphony, even if it is still occasionally referred to as the ninth to this day. It can be assumed that Schubert, who experienced the Viennese premiere of Beethoven’s ninth symphony in 1824, wanted to catch up artistically with his considerably older colleague. He dedicated his work to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, in whose archives the score can be traced back to the end of 1826. However, it was not until 1839 – after Schubert’s death – that its performance history began, after Robert Schumann became aware of the work and arranged for it to be printed. Following the posthumous premiere by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on March 21, 1839, Schumann formulated one of Schubert’s most famous quotes in 1840, that of the “heavenly length”. Due to the value that the composer himself attributed to this work, and to distinguish it from the much shorter (and therefore often referred to as the “Little C major”) Sixth Symphony in the same key, it was nicknamed “the Great”. |