门德尔松《第4交响曲“意大利”》 /舒伯特《C小调第4交响曲（“悲剧”）》 /布尔特爵士指挥、巴比罗利爵士指挥 ,伦敦爱乐乐团，哈雷管弦乐团
GenreAlbum
Year1962
Introduction
Symphony No. 4 (Schubert)
Franz Schubert'sSymphony No. 4inC minor,D417, called by its composer theTragic(German:Tragische), was completed in April 1816,[1]a year after hisThird Symphony, when he was 19 years old. It was not premiered publicly, however, until November 19, 1849, inLeipzig, more than two decades after Schubert's death.
Structure
Schubert added the titleTragicto his autograph manuscript some time after the work was completed.[1]It is not known why. It can be noted, however, that the symphony is one of only two he wrote (theUnfinishedSymphonyis the other) in aminorkey. The scoring is for 2flutes, 2oboes, 2clarinetsin B♭, 2bassoons, 4hornsin A♭, C and E♭, 2trumpetsin C and E♭,timpaniandstrings. There are fourmovements, and a performance lasts around 30 minutes.
1.Adagiomolto–Allegrovivace(C minor–C major) (286 bars)
2.Andante(A♭ major) (271 bars)
3.MenuettoAllegro vivace(54 bars) – Trio (E♭ major) (32 bars)
4.Allegro (C minor – C major) (486 bars)
The slow introduction is modeled afterHaydn'sThe Representation of Chaosoverture toThe Creationoratorio.[1][2]The opening theme of theAllegroof the first movement derives from the opening theme ofLudwig van Beethoven'sString Quartet, Op. 18 No. 4in the same key.[1]
The slow movement is in ABABA form which would be a favorite form for most of Schubert's remaining symphonic slow movements.[1]The themes in the B section are not new. They are developed from theAllegrotheme of the first movement and the themes of the A section. The second appearance of B, the third return of A and the beginning of the coda have asixteenth-noteostinato accompaniment added to help bring cohesiveness to the sections. This was a device that Beethoven had previously used in the slow movements of hisOp. 18 No. 1 quartetand hisPathetiquesonata.
摘自:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4(Schubert)
Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)
TheSymphony No. 4in A major,Op.90, commonly known as theItalian,[1]is an orchestral symphony written by German composerFelix Mendelssohn.
History
The work has its origins (as had the composer'sScottish3rd SymphonyandThe Hebridesoverture) in the tour of Europe which occupied Mendelssohn from 1829 to 1831. Its inspiration is the colour and atmosphere of Italy, where Mendelssohn made sketches but left the work incomplete. Below is a snippet of a letter he wrote to his father:
This is Italy! And now has begun what I have always thought... to be the supreme joy in life. And I am loving it. Today was so rich that now, in the evening, I must collect myself a little, and so I am writing to you to thank you, dear parents, for having given me all this happiness.[2]
In February he wrote from Rome to his sisterFanny,
TheItaliansymphony is making great progress. It will be the jolliest piece I have ever done, especially the last movement. I have not found anything for the slow movement yet, and I think that I will save that for Naples.
TheItalian Symphonywas finished in Berlin on 13 March 1833, in response to an invitation for a symphony from theLondon (now Royal) Philharmonic Society; he conducted the first performance himself in London on 13 May 1833 at a London Philharmonic Society concert. The symphony's success, and Mendelssohn's popularity, influenced the course of British music for the rest of the century.[3]TheGermania Musical Societyof Boston gave the first performance in the United States, on 1 November 1851, withCarl Bergmannconducting.[4]
Mendelssohn himself, however, remained dissatisfied with the composition, which cost him, he said, some of the bitterest moments of his career; he revised it in 1834[5]and even planned to write alternative versions of the second, third, and fourth movements. He never published the symphony, and it appeared in print only in 1851;[6]thus it is numbered as his "Symphony No. 4", even though it was in fact the third he composed.