Spohr: Symphonies Nos 7 and 9, etc – review

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Howard Shelley(Hyperion)Hyperion's cycle of Louis Spohr's symphonies, with Howard Shelley conducting the Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, has certainly been complete, and it comes to an end with these works from 1841 and 1850. Both have extra-musical programmes: the sleeve notes wishfully describe Spohr as standing "alongside" Berlioz as a pioneer of the programme symphony, but then they are written by the chairman of the Spohr Society of Great Britain. The Seventh,...

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