Marc Albrecht / Beethoven / Schumann by Beethoven, Schumann, 从 (2017/2017), 导体 Marc Albrecht, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, Italy

« To the impulse of spring, which raises man even in his most advanced age and every year catches him with renewed surprise! »: this is how Robert Schumann presented his first symphony, entitled Spring, composed in just three days in the cold winter of 1841 and performed to applause for the first time on 31 March of the same year at the Gewandhaus Saal in Leipzig by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy . The fourth symphony, composed a few months later, was initially conceived as a "symphonic fantasy", in which the movements follow one another without interruptions and the themes recur several times; received coldly, Schumann reworked the orchestration and successfully presented it again in 1852.