Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circl...
SCHUBERT 'Trout' Quintet
SCHUBERT Solo piano works
GRIEG Piano Concerto
Studio recordings, 1927-36
Total duration: 77:09
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Members of the International String Quartet
Claude Hobday, double bass
New Symphony Orchestra
conducted by John Barbirolli
MOZART Requiem in D minor, K.626
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485
Studio recordings, 1954-1959
Total duration: 77:52
Elsie Morison soprano
Monica Sinclair contralto
Alexander Young tenor
Marian Nowakowski bass
BBC Chorus, dir. Leslie Woodgate
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
MOZART Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
MOZART The Impresario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March
Recorded in 1945
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 14 April 1945
Total duration: 57:50
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
BEETHOVEN Overtures
BEETHOVEN Funeral March from Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 'Great'
Studio recordings, 1919-1932
Total duration: 2hr 27:17
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leo Blech
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3, Partita No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8, 2 Overtures
GLUCK Alceste - Overture
MOZART Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter', 2 Overtures
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, 'Great'
Studio recordings, 1932-1937
Total duration: 2hr 34:13
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
