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 short productive composing life. His Symphony No. 3 (1815), with it's extensive and evolving slow introduction modelled on late Haydn is followed by the culminating distillation of Schubertian classicism that is his 'little' Symphony No. 5 (1816). Scored for chamber orchestra, it tells of much more 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.

Tracklist:

Symphony No. 3 In D Major, D. 200: I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Brio
Symphony No. 3 In D Major, D. 200: II. Allegretto
Symphony No. 3 In D Major, D. 200: III. Menuetto. Vivace
Symphony No. 3 In D Major, D. 200: IV. Presto Vivace
Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, D. 485: I. Allegro
Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante Con Moto
Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, D. 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro Molto
Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major, D. 485: IV. Allegro Vivace
Symphony No. 8 In B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": I. Allegro Moderato
Symphony No. 8 In B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": II. Andante Con Moto

UPC: 095115523421
Label: Chandos
Release Date: 2.1.19
Format: CD

Schubert - Schubert Symphonies (CD)