Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Release: 2019
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200
01. I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con brio
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Menuetto. Vivace
04. IV. Presto vivace
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante con moto
07. III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
08. IV. Allegro vivace
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 ‘Unfinished’
09. I. Allegro moderato
10. II. Andante con moto
Following a highly successful series ‘Mendelssohn in Birmingham’, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their former Chief Conductor Edward Gardner here presents the first volume in a new surround-sound series: Schubert Symphonies. This first volume comprises of three symphonies spanning across Schubert’s life. His Symphony No. 3 (1815), with its extensive and evolving slow introduction is followed by the culminating distillation of Schubertian classicism that is his ‘little’ Symphony No. 5 (1816). Scored for chamber orchestra, it tells of an influence of Mozart, for whom Schubert seemed to have felt a special affinity with around this time. Completing the album is Schubert’s much more intense (with a turbulent first movement and serene second) Symphony No. 8 “unfinished” (1822), of which only the first two movements and a skeleton sketch of a third Scherzo movement were completed.