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Rene Jacobs

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Singing of quite extraordinary freedom.Schubert from Ren Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra.Volume 2 brings Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.Hybrid SACD. The second instalment in Ren Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra’s complete cycle of the Schubert symphonies, following the widely praised coupling of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6 (PTC 5186707), and this time pairing Nos. 2 and 3. Jacobs, a musician of vast experience, acute ears and deep learning, has clearly waited for the right moment to set these works down.The B’Rock Orchestra was founded in 2005 in Ghent, Belgium’s third city, and plays on period instruments. It has built its reputation through collaborations with Ren Jacobs, Ivor Bolton and Alexander Melnikov, among others. Several Japanese players are among its members, and its long-awaited Japanese debut in September 2019 attracted considerable attention. Under Jacobs’s baton the orchestra’s endlessly shif