Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97, 'Rhenish'
Composer: Robert Schumann
Performers: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ilan Volkov
Recording date: 09 August 2006
Date of broadcast: 09 August 2006
The Rhine was almost magical to German Romantics and Schumann's symphony - vigorous and passionate - is like a celebration of the river's nurturing strength and its many moods.
Completed in only five weeks, Schumann鈥檚 third symphony abounds with exhilarant joy evoking the exuberance of the Rhineland - its nature and traditions.
Having recently moved to Dusseldorf, Schumann was however, according to his wife Clara, vexed by 鈥榠ncessant street noises, barrel-organs, screaming brats, wagons, etc.鈥� which deeply affected his concentration.
Composer: Robert Schumann
Performers: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ilan Volkov
Recording date: 09 August 2006
Date of broadcast: 09 August 2006
