In the first of a three-part series, Michael Quinn talks about Schubert's symphonies to conductors, Sir Colin Davis, Roger Norrington and Frans Briiggen and Schubert scholar Brian Newbould In a great ...
Nikolaus Harnoncourt believes that Schubert failed to finish his 8th symphony because ‘there is simply nothing else to say’. And yet the puzzle of this intriguing half work remains As the hot-headed ...
The young Franz Schubert has a friend in Gustavo Dudamel. Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began a cycle of Schubert’s symphonies with the opening concert dedicated to the youths dying in ...
Only two movements were completed, but Schubert's eighth symphony stands as one of the greatest, and strangest, of the genre, writes Tom Service When Schubert began writing his symphony in B minor in ...
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra inject wonderful energy into two Schubert symphonies. Album of the Week, 19 August 2013. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is a ...