Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard, Anthony Halstead - Zweers: Symphony No. 1 in D Major - De Lange: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (1994)

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 1 in D Major: I. Andante-Allegro
02. Symphony No. 1 in D Major: II. Adagio
03. Symphony No. 1 in D Major: III. Scherzo, Presto
04. Symphony No. 1 in D Major: IV. Finale. Allegro assai
05. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: I. Allegro moderato
06. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: II. Andante con moto
07. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: III. Scherzo
08. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: IV. Allegro moderato



What a discovery! Zweers is hardly unknown in the Netherlands -but his symphony No. 3, 'To my Fatherland', is the only one that seems to have reached recognition. Here is a youthful and spirited work, very much inspired of Haydn. A jolly and gracious work with a jubilant following a solemn and highly memorable choral melody. De Lange may have been more inspired by Mendelssohn. Even so, his music is in part very original with a persistent timpani in the first movement and a melodical and excellent buildup in the last!

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