Browse: Schubert - Symphony No. 1 in D major, D82

The CBSO plays admirably throughout, and the Chandos recording is attractively spacious. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Well known for his deep scepticism and deliberate avoidance of performing tradition, Harnoncourt breathes new life into the music by looking afresh at the sources and encouraging his players... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden is quite excellent, with fine work from the strings and commendable clarity of wind textures. This may be “big-band” Schubert, but never once did I sense... — MusicWeb International, 14th April 2014 More…

beautifully and practically presented, while the performances, the performances, especially of the early symphonies, Nos 1-6, are miraculously alert and affectionately Viennese in style. Harnoncourt’s... — Sunday Times, 1st October 2017 More…

an unmitigated delight…the winner among these works is Symphony No. 3…enchanting in every way, with Schubert's devotion to Beethoven's Second Symphony, in the same key, evident but unstressed — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These performances of youthful Schubert symphonies are nothing if not thought-provoking. Certainly, there are imaginative touches…but many of Jacobs’s tempos are so hard-driven that the music’s... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

They look beyond the printed page...and gift all listeners with illuminating interpretations. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

incandescent atmosphere and magisterial playing — Classic FM Magazine, August 2011 More…