Dresdner Philharmonie & Marek Janowski - Schumann: Complete Symphonies (2024)

Marek Janowski presents Schumann: Complete Symphonies, a comprehensive collection recorded together with the Dresdner Philharmonie. After a fruitful decade as a composer for piano and voice, Schumann then began writing symphonic works, marking a new phase in his life. Recorded between 2021 and 2023, Janowski interprets Schumann’s symphonies with great vitality and intensity in this release that celebrates the culmination of his appointment as chief conductor with the orchestra.

Marek Janowski is one of the most celebrated conductors of our time. This remarkable recording of Schumann’s complete symphonies follows 2023’s Schubert Unfinished & Great Symphonies (also with the Dresdner Philharmonie), complete recordings of Bruckner, Brahms and Beethoven’s symphonies, several works by Richard Strauss, and Wagner’s ten mature operas. He works together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, with whom he already released complete recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021), Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (both 2020).

Tracklist:
01. Schumann- Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 -Spring– I. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace - Animato
02. Schumann- Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 -Spring– II. Larghetto
03. Schumann- Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 -Spring– III. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Trio I & Trio II. Molto più vivace
04. Schumann- Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 -Spring– IV. Allegro animato e grazioso - Andante - Poco a poco accelerando
05. Schumann- Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61- I. Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo
06. Schumann- Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61- II. Scherzo - Trio I - Trio 2 - Coda. Allegro vivace
07. Schumann- Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61- III. Adagio espressivo
08. Schumann- Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61- IV. Allegro molto vivace
09. Schumann- Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97- I. Lebhaft (Vivace)
10. Schumann- Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97- II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig (Molto moderato)
11. Schumann- Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97- III. Nicht schnell (Moderato)
12. Schumann- Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97- IV. Feierlich (Maestoso)
13. Schumann- Symphonie No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97- V. Lebhaft (Vivace)
14. Schumann- Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120- I. Ziemlich langsam (Lento assai) - Lebhaft (Vivace)
15. Schumann- Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120- II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam (Lento assai)
16. Schumann- Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120- III. Scherzo - Trio. Lebhaft (Vivace)
17. Schumann- Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120- IV. Langsam (Lento) - Lebhaft (Vivace) - Schneller (Più animato) - Presto