City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner - Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 1 – Nos. 3, 5 & 8 (2019) [Hi-Res]

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01. Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200: I. Adagio maestoso-Allegro con brio
02. Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200: II. Allegretto
03. Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200: III. Menuetto. Vivace
04. Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200: IV. Presto vivace
05. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: I. Allegro
06. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante con moto
07. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
08. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: IV. Allegro vivace
09. Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": I. Allegro moderato
10. Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished": 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 a new series: Schubert Symphonies.

This first volume comprises of three symphonies spanning across Schubert’s short productive composing life. His Symphony No. 3 (1815), with its 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.

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