Notes and Editorial Reviews
These nicely-packaged discs combine familiar Schubert in superb performances with the unfamiliar newly-minted by Brian Newbould, who contributes a good sleeve-note. (He misquotes me about No. 6, based, I once suggested, on Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, not No. 5).
The best of the unfamiliar items is what is here called No. 10 which derives from sketches Schubert made on his death bed. This is fascinating, one of the great Might-Have-Beens—if only he'd lived another month or two. But inevitably we hear Schubert diluted, and it cannot hope to stand up to repeated hearings like the familiar Greats. Also I don't feel that the best movement, the slow one, quite achieves its potential in this performance. But you really shouldn't
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miss this work; it's memorable, and some of the other reconstituted sketches are well worth hearing too.
-- Gramophone [3/1985]
reviewing these recordings previously reissued as Philips 412176
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Works on This Recording
1.
Symphony no 1 in D major, D 82 by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1813; Vienna, Austria
2.
Symphony no 3 in D major, D 200 by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1815; Vienna, Austria
3.
Symphony no 2 in B flat major, D 125 by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1814-1824; Vienna, Austria
4.
Symphony no 6 in C major, D 589 "Little C Major" by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1818; Vienna, Austria
5.
Symphony no 4 in C minor, D 417 "Tragic" by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Vienna, Austria
6.
Symphony no 5 in B flat major, D 485 by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Vienna, Austria
7.
Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished" by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1822; Vienna, Austria
8.
Symphony in D major, D 708a [fragments] by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: after 1820; Vienna, Austria
9.
Symphony no 10 in D major, D 936a by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1828; Vienna, Austria
10.
Symphony no 9 in C major, D 944 "Great" by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1825-28; Vienna, Austria
11.
Symphony in D major, D 615 [fragments] by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1818; Vienna, Austria
12.
Symphony no 7 in E major, D 729 [sketches] by Franz Schubert
Conductor:
Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Period: Romantic
Written: 1821; Vienna, Austria
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