Schubert Symphonies

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner - Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 * Nos. 2 & 6 & Italian Overtures (2020)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner - Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 * Nos. 2 & 6 & Italian Overtures (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 321 MB | Tracks: 10 | 75:54 min
Style: Classical | Label: Chandos

For the second volume in his Birmingham Schubert symphony cycle, Edward Gardner turns to the Second and Sixth Symphonies. Composed between December 1814 and March 1815, the Second Symphony is not only a response by Schubert to the works of Beethoven, and especially the Prometheus Overture, but also strives to push the conventional symphonic boundaries, most notably in the extended exposition of the first movement. Completed in February 1818, the Sixth Symphony was the first to be titled "Große Sinfonie" (grand symphony) by Schubert, a mark of his growing confidence in his work in the symphonic idiom. The two Overtures were composed at the same time as the Sixth Symphony, and are clearly modelled on the overtures of Rossini, whose music was all the rage in Vienna at that time.
George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra - Schubert: Symphonies No. 8 "Unfinished" & No. 9 "The Great" (1992)

George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra - Schubert: Symphonies No. 8 "Unfinished" & No. 9 "The Great" (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 70:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SBK 48 268 | Recorded: 1957, 1960

Schubert's two greatest orchestral works on one CD at budget price–if the performances were indifferent this would be no bargain at all, but they are superb. In fact, these versions may have been equaled, but they have never been surpassed. George Szell understood intuitively how to balance Romantic passion with intellectual discipline. In difficult pieces like the Schubert Ninth, he rose to the challenge like an Olympic athlete after a new world record. The recordings he made in his prime with his own Cleveland Orchestra comprise one of the most satisfying legacies in the history of classical music on disc. Within even this impressive legacy, these performances stand high.
Herbert Von Karajan - Haydn, Mozart, Schubert: Symphonies 1970-1981 (2014) (8 CDs Box Set)

Herbert Von Karajan - Haydn, Mozart, Schubert: Symphonies 1970-1981 (2014) (8 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | 8 CDs, 09:42:02 min | Covers included | 2,5 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner

He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). While Beethoven’s symphonies, so central to Karajan’s recorded legacy, embody music’s transition from Classicism to Romanticism, this set presents symphonies by Beethoven’s great Classical predecessors – Mozart and Haydn – and his admiring Romantic contemporary, Schubert. It also offers a rarity: the overture to Cherubini’s opera Anacréon.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Franz Schubert: The Symphonies (1993)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Franz Schubert: The Symphonies (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.01 Gb | Total time: 04:24:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 4509-91184-2 | Recorded: 1992

Everything that Nikolaus Harnoncourt does is interesting, and sometimes inspired. Even at his weirdest, he usually has a reason for doing what he does, and fortunately there's no need at all to make excuses for his marvelous Schubert symphonies. Of course, he has the Concertgebouw at his beck and call, which adds no small dimension to the success of these performances, but for the most part it's all Harnoncourt's show. Fresh, exciting, provocative, you will never hear Schubert the same way again.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Maxim Emelyanychev - Schubert Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Maxim Emelyanychev - Schubert Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:09:14 minutes | 1.14 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Following a critically acclaimed recording of 'The Great', the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and it's conductor Maxim Emelyanychev continue their survey of Schubert's orchestral music with Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8.
Schubert: Symphonies no. 5 & 6 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado

Schubert: Symphonies no. 5 & 6 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado
EAC Rip | Individual FLAC, M3U+CUE+LOG, Booklet | 268 MB | RAR 3% Recovery | RS | Label: DG | Cat no.: 423 654-2 | 1988


For all their fine qualities, [Abbado's] previous recordings of the central Viennese classics have never been remarkable for their warmth. With the COE in Schubert it is different. These are performances…which have an authentic Schubertian glow. - Edward Greenfield, Gramophone [2/1989]

This is the third CD of 5 from The Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado - Schubert's cycle.
Schubert: Symphonies no. 1 & 2 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado

Schubert: Symphonies no. 1 & 2 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado
EAC Rip | Individual FLAC, M3U+CUE+LOG, Booklet | 273 MB | RAR 3% Recovery | RS
Label: DG | Cat no.: 423 652-2 | 1988


For all their fine qualities, [Abbado's] previous recordings of the central Viennese classics have never been remarkable for their warmth. With the COE in Schubert it is different. These are performances…which have an authentic Schubertian glow. - Edward Greenfield, Gramophone [2/1989]

This is the first CD of 5 from The Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado - Schubert's cycle.
Schubert: Symphonies no. 3 & 4 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado

Schubert: Symphonies no. 3 & 4 - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Claudio Abbado
EAC Rip | Individual FLAC, M3U+CUE+LOG, Booklet | 258 MB | RAR 3% Recovery | RS
Label: DG | Cat no.: 423 653-2 | 1988


For all their fine qualities, [Abbado's] previous recordings of the central Viennese classics have never been remarkable for their warmth. With the COE in Schubert it is different. These are performances…which have an authentic Schubertian glow. - Edward Greenfield, Gramophone [2/1989]

This is the second CD of 5 from The Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado - Schubert's cycle.
VA - Schubert: Symphonies N°3 D 200, N°2 D 125, N°1 D 82, N°5 D 485, N°4 « Tragique » D 417, N°6 D 589 (2019)

VA - Schubert: Symphonies N°3 D 200, N°2 D 125, N°1 D 82, N°5 D 485, N°4 « Tragique » D 417, N°6 D 589 (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 620 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 369 Mb | Covers included | 02:36:20
Classical | Label: Les indispensables de Diapason

Sept ans après un Indispensable associant les 8e (par Mravinski) et 9e (Krips), Gaëtan Naulleau a écrémé la discographie des six autres symphonies.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:54 minutes | 1,12 GB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

For the third volume in their cycle of Schubert’s symphonies, Edward Gardner and the CBSO turn to the first and fourth symphonies. Composed in 1813, when Schubert was just sixteen, the First Symphony admirably demonstrates the young composer’s grasp of symphonic form and technique, and whilst the influences of Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven are clearly audible, the spirit of Schubert’s own distinctive voice is certainly in evidence.