Beautiful music, but perhaps a little too intellectual, heavy and long-winding... Very well played! Full-bodied instrumentation - nice to read the score at the same time! It's like a combination of Bruckner and Reger, plus a touch of R. Strauss and Mahler. Thanks!
Schmidt was only in his early to mid-20s when he composed it, and had written nothing of any significance before it in any medium. Bruckner and Strauss are clear influences (and Brahms, too), but Reger (who had composed no purely orchestral music when this symphony was being written) and Mahler are far more questionable.
The theme of the second movement is one of the noblest I ever heard in the symphonic literature.
Großartig, dieses Stück!!! I`m speechless!
Beautiful music, but perhaps a little too intellectual, heavy and long-winding... Very well played! Full-bodied instrumentation - nice to read the score at the same time! It's like a combination of Bruckner and Reger, plus a touch of R. Strauss and Mahler. Thanks!
Schmidt was only in his early to mid-20s when he composed it, and had written nothing of any significance before it in any medium. Bruckner and Strauss are clear influences (and Brahms, too), but Reger (who had composed no purely orchestral music when this symphony was being written) and Mahler are far more questionable.
Tom Corfield mentions that the symphony's opening is, among other things, a kind of pastiche of Handel, particularly the Organ Concerto, Op. 4, No. 2.
Wonderful work that I’m heretofore unfamiliar with.
Schmidt trombone
not raff 0/10
Franz Schmidt, 10/10.