As the ” 10and of Beethoven”, the Symphony in E major of Schubert is a great fantasy. It is the “7th of Schubert”, in a logic where the “Unfinished” is the 8andand “The Great” 9and. Abandoned in 1821, left as sketches of which only 110 measures (out of 1340) were orchestrated by Schubert, the Symphony in E major was completed by Felix Weingartner in 1934 (Heinz Rögner, Berlin Classics) and Brian Newbould in 1981 (Neville Marriner, Philips), who failed to establish the work in the last 40 years. Richard Dünser’s approach (2020), served by an honorable conductor and orchestra, consists squarely in throwing out the Andante and the Scherzo and inserting the symphonic fragments D. 936 and D.708 which gives the whole a more “late Schubert” patina, especially thanks to the Andante. In case the Scherzo is still too silly, Venzago offers as an appendix in an alternative Scherzo his reconstruction of Allegro D. 936, generally attached to the Symphony “ notoh 10 “. And now Schubert, Lego and IKEA start to rhyme.
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