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Less often heard is Schumann’s earlier Symphony in G minor (“Zwickau”), of which only two movements were completed. Dausgaard, conducting from memory, clearly believes in the first movement and made a strong case for it with a bracing performance.
The commissioned composer, Albert Schnelzer, identifying a putative congruence between the musical personality of Haydn and American film director Tim Burton, decided to conflate the two, asking himself the question: “Will the spirit of Haydn survive in an American suburb?” It was possible to detect something Haydnesque in the playful character and transparent textures of this enjoyable piece.
In Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, Nina Stemme brought an aptly veiled quality to her singing of Le Spectre de la Rose, while the spare contrapuntal textures were beautifully realised. The emptiness of life without the beloved was poignantly evoked in the following songs, both by the lean instrumental forces and by Stemme, whose dark tonal colouring and keen response to the text captured the underlying melancholy to perfection.







