If you have been reading my posted for a while, then you already know that I am crazy about the music of Franz Schubert.
On this CD, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their former Chief Conductor Edward Gardner 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 great example 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 Symphony No. 8 “unfinished” (1822), of which only the first two movements and a skeleton sketch of a third Scherzo movement were completed.
On November 19, 1828, and Schubert died at age 31.
Here is the Symphony #5 by Schubert:
