Schubert: The 10 Symphonies
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Composer: Franz SchubertComposer: Brian Newbould
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2003-03-11
Music Label: Philips
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Free Music Review: A landmark recording of a remarkable piece of music history
Hit: 5 Stars
A classical music buff looking at the title of this album could be forgiven for being confused. "The Ten Symphonies"? But Schubert only wrote 7 plus one "Unfinished"... Didn't he?
It turns out the story is more complicated. After writing his first six symphonies, Schubert completed a full outline for a seventh that he set aside and for some reason never returned to. He then completed the first two movements of a new symphony, which was eventually numbered "8" by musicologists and given the title "Unfinished." There was also a sketch for the third movement of the 8th that Schubert never completed, and a separate overture that musicologists have long suspected was originally intended to be the finale to the 8th. Schubert then composed his great symphony in C Major, now numbered 9 (although it has historically also been numbered 7 or 8). And finally, he completed the piano score for a tenth symphony. His sketchbooks also contain other symphonic fragments.
This set of recordings not only presents Schubert's completed symphonies, but also a remarkable achievement -- the recreation or realization, by musicologist Brian Newbould, of the 7th, the full 8th, and the 10th symphony. These realizations are not, in a strict sense, true authentic works of Schubert, but rather, as Newbould acknowledges, speculative "educated guesses" as to what those symphonies would sound like had they been completed. But they are nonetheless fascinating, and very listenable.
The performances of all tens symphonies, and the symphonic fragments, are solid, as one would expect from Neville Marriner and the Academy. All around, a unique experience.
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