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Spohr - Symphonies Nos 8 & 10, Overture | Hyperion CDA67802

Spohr - Symphonies Nos 8 & 10, Overture

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67802

Barcode: 0034571178028

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 31st January 2011

Contents

Artists

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Conductor

Howard Shelley

Works

Spohr, Louis

Der Zweikampf mit der Geliebten, WoO50
» Overture
Symphony no.8 in G major, op.137
Symphony no.10 in E flat major, WoO8

Artists

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Conductor

Howard Shelley

About

Howard Shelley’s fascinating discs of Spohr’s symphonies with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana have reignited interest in a composer who was once the most important in Europe, and particularly so in England, where he was worshipped by all of musical society.

Spohr’s Eighth Symphony is one of the composer’s more conservative experiments with the form. The Tenth is the composer’s final symphony and remained unpublished – languishing in the former Prussian State Library in Berlin for many years – until 2006. Both works bring unexpected pleasures. This is the penultimate volume of a series which as a whole is an important historical document of musical taste.

Praise for Spohr Symphonies 3 & 6 (CDA67788):
Howard Shelley has a strong feeling for the varieties and subtleties of Spohr’s symphonic style … [Symphony No 3] The stormy Allegro bursts with energy and Shelley makes the most of a fine Larghetto and of a Scherzo with echoes of Mendelssohn as well as of Beethoven. Spohr’s finale is given its full strength with thematic material that receives imaginative handling’ - Gramophone

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