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Schubert: Symphony No. 6 - Dausgaard

Schubert: Symphony No. 6 - Dausgaard

BIS  BIS-1987 SACD

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral


SCHUBERT, Franz (1797–1828)
Symphony No. 6 in C major, D 589 (1817–18) ‘Little C major’
Rosamunde, incidental music (selection), D 797 (1823)
Entr’acte No. 1 in B minor.
Entr’acte No. 3 in B flat major.
Entr’acte No. 2 in D major.
Ballet Music No. 2 in G major.
Ballet Music No. 1 in B minor/G major
Allegro moderato – Andante un poco assai

Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro
Leader: Urban Svensson (Symphony); Katarina Andreasson (Rosamunde)
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)


It is a sobering thought that the first public performance of any symphony by Schubert took place after his death, at a memorial concert in December 1828.

The work in question was the Symphony No.6 in C major, composed ten years earlier but previously only played through once, by an amateur orchestra.

What was heard at the 1828 concert was thus music by a relatively untroubled 20-year-old composer paying tribute to one of his heroes at the time: Rossini. ‘He is undeniably an exceptional genius’, Schubert had said of Rossini in 1819, and both the cavatina style of the second movement and the effervescent spontaneity of the finale certainly call to mind the Italian composer’s overtures.

But in the third movement Scherzo another, even more important influence is heard, for instance in the numerous contrasts that abruptly punctuate the music in a clearly Beethovenian manner.

Obviously proud of the work, Schubert called it his ‘Great Symphony in C major’, unsuspecting of the fact that the same designation would later be applied to his final work in the genre, Symphony No.9 in C major, D944.

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Recorded in February 2012 at the Örebro Concert Hall, Sweden, 24/96

Producer: Martin Nagorni

Sound engineer: Bastian Schick

Equipment: Neumann microphones; RME Micstasy microphone preamplifier and high resolution A/D converter; MADI optical cabling; Yamaha 02R96 digital mixer; Sequoia Workstation; Pyramix DSD Workstation; B&W Nautilus 802 loudspeakers; STAX headphones

Post-production: Editing and mixing: Martin Nagorni

Executive producer: Robert Suff