With this 2012 Hyperion release, Howard Shelley and the Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra bring to a close their cycle of Louis Spohr's ten symphonies, a project that began with the 2007 release of the Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, and continued almost annually with the Symphonies No. 4 and No. 5, No. 3 and No. 6, and No. 8 and No. 10, in those combinations. While the lower numbered works represent the Classical side of Spohr, and are composed in a manner derivative of Mozart and early Beethoven, the Symphony No. 7 in C major for ...
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With this 2012 Hyperion release, Howard Shelley and the Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra bring to a close their cycle of Louis Spohr's ten symphonies, a project that began with the 2007 release of the Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, and continued almost annually with the Symphonies No. 4 and No. 5, No. 3 and No. 6, and No. 8 and No. 10, in those combinations. While the lower numbered works represent the Classical side of Spohr, and are composed in a manner derivative of Mozart and early Beethoven, the Symphony No. 7 in C major for two orchestras, "The Earthly and Divine in Human Life," Op. 121, and the Symphony No. 9 in B minor, "The Seasons," Op. 143, reveal his late development into a Romantic composer of rather picturesque music, not dissimilar in style and musical content to Mendelssohn, Weber, and even young Wagner. Spohr was the leading German violinist and conductor of his day, and his influence was widespread until his music fell into relative obscurity in the early 20th century. These symphonies are...
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