Franz Welser-Möst, The London Philharmonic - Franz Schmidt: Symphonie No. 4; Variationen über ein Husarenlied (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 55518-2 | Recorded: 1974
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 55518-2 | Recorded: 1974
Franz Schmidt is currently on his way to be recognized as one of the most important representatives of the post-Mahlerian, post-romantic symphonic tradition. Indeed, there is something about Schmidt's symphonies - the fourth in particular - that suggests a certain post-apocalyptic feeling, not in terms of any feeling of tragedy in particular but because it feels as if Schmidt are writing the somewhat sobering afterwords to the works of Bruckner and Mahler at the very end of the romantic era (the symphony dates from 1933).