Spohr: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Walter

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

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Virtuoso violinist, conductor and composer, Louis Spohr wrote ten completed symphonies. The first five demonstrate a remarkable creative growth inaugurated by Symphony No. 1 of 1811 which took the music of Spohr's idol, Mozart, as a model. Whilst retaining individuality, classical precedents infuse it with festive vitality. "Truly beautiful and masterly" was Robert Schumann's judgement of Symphony No. 5 in C minor, a work both expansively melodic and quintessentially Romantic - and possibly Spohr's greatest symphonic statement.

Tracks:

Symphony No 1 in E flat major, Op. 20 (1811)
Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 102