THÉODORE GOUVY (1819-1898): Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 87, Sinfonietta in D, Op. 80.

Catalogue Number: 02L003

Label: CPO

Reference: 777 380

Format: CD

Price: $15.98

Description: Back in June when the first volume of this new series came out, we noted a close affinity between those symphonies and the melodic, dancing and lyrical aspects of Mendelssohn. Now, later in his career, the 1885 Sinfonietta (really a symphony but Gouvy was convinced to retitle it by his friends Reinecke and Jadassohn) will remind you of Schumann's First in its opening movement's transition from adagio to allegro and in its final movement main motif while elements of the variation slow movement will recall both Beethoven's Seventh and Schubert's Ninth. Gouvy's last symphony (1892), according to his first biographer, sketches a romantic tale, the musical equivalent of ruined castles and rocky abysses. The first movement has a distant kinship in spirit with Mendelssohn's Scottish but the scherzo is sunny and capricious and the finale is a powerful, march-inflected tarantella. Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern; Jacques Mercier.

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