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Schumann: The 4 Symphonies by Leonard Bernstein 🎧 Qobuz Tidal 🎧 Amazon Music Deezer 🎧 Spotify Youtube Music 🎧 Apple Music — SoundCloud 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, LineMusic日本, Awa日本, QQ音乐 … Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 00:00 I. Ziemlich langsam — Lebhaft (Remastered 2023, New York 1960) 10:43 II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam (Remastered 2023, New York 1960) 15:37 III. Scherzo. Lebhaft — Trio (Remastered 2023, New York 1960) 20:57 IV. Langsam — Lebhaft (Remastered 2023, New York 1960) Complete Remastered Edition Available on all the main streaming platforms (Qobuz in 24/96 His-Res, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, Youtube Music..) New York Philharmonic Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Recorded in 1960, at New York New mastering in 2023 by AB for CMRR 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : ❤ If you like CMRR content, please consider membership at our Patreon or Tipeee page. Thank you :) // In the manner of his elder Wilhelm Furtwängler, Leonard Bernstein records the Fourth Symphony in a single take. To understand why it's important for a conductor to conduct the Fourth in a single take, it's necessary to know an important characteristic of Schumann's symphonic writing: the interconnection of the movements. Since the themes, motifs and episodes are linked together across the movements, there really does exist, on a subtle level, a “reminiscence“ and thus a special quality of cohesion. Schumann made use of this special form of association in all his symphonies — a technique which Brahms adopted and further developed in his symphonic writing. As much as ten years before the Rhenish, Schumann devoted himself to this new symphonic concept. On May 31, 1841 Clara noted: “Robert's mind is extremely active at present; yesterday he began another symphony, which is to consist of a single movement, but to include an Adagio and a Finale.“ This remark refers to his work on the Symphony No. 4 in D minor, which is in fact Schumann' s second symphony, and contains an important pointer to the concept of the work: it consists of “a single movement“. This unusual continuous form gave rise to a great deal of criticism after its first performance on December 6, 1841 in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, as did the chamber music character of the Romanze and the orchestration. Schumann, who was himself obviously not convinced, withdrew the work. Not until 1851, in Düsseldorf, did the composer once again concern himself with this composition and began to revise it. On May 3, 1853 he wrote to his friend, the conductor Johann Verhulst in Rotterdam: “Incidentally I have entirely reorchestrated the symphony and have certainly made it better and more effective than it was before.“ He retained the through-composed, continuous form of the movements, about wich the critics no longer complained: “The symphony is played without a break, but is not at all too long, since each movement (…) both holds the listener's attention and occupies his imagination and emotion.“ Leonard Bernstein was a pioneer in recording the original text of Robert Schumann's complete Symphonies, as opposed to so many versions reproducing scores rearranged by orchestrators who may have been more efficient but considerably less expressive. This recording is undoubtedly the most important in the discography, both for its philological aspect and for the conductor's physical commitment. Robert & Clara Schumann PLAYLIST (reference recordings):
