The truth was darker and more complex. Schubert’s early symphonies are breezy and Classical, barely hinting at the indelible voice of the mature composer. In the ‘Unfinished,’ though ...

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A collection of performances to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ...

This time, the masterpieces we share are by Franz Schubert, and include the first movement of Symphony No. 2 as well as Symphony No. 4 in its entirety, both conducted by Suzuki Masaaki.

And write it he did. There has probably been no one in the history of music with such a prodigious facility as Schubert. In this period he composed five symphonies, four Masses, several string ...

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 - Basel Symphony Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies ...

Schubert: Symphonies Nos 5 & 8 (Linn) Schubert’s Fifth Symphony shoots off the starting block like a medal-hungry Olympic sprinter in this performance from Maxim Emelyanychev and the ...

Also for the first time, the Singapore audience witnessed the completion of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, in a four-movement edition by the conductor. The final two movements, he claimed, had been ...

Schubertiade Festival brings rare performances and musical treasures to venues across the country, including an Israeli ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Conductor Myung-Whun Chung leads the Korean Broadcast System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra for this ...

But it’s also because the piece—like Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony or Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”—belongs to that cherished class of works that achieve greatness despite their ...