Browse: Schubert - Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'

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…

it is the ‘Great’ C major that is perhaps the gem of the present set: a notably intense performance, played with tireless propulsion and infectious fervour. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2022 More…

An excellence of this new live recording is the way Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian players subtly bring out the harmonic changes or enrichments of surrounding part-writing with which Schubert... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The pace of the Andante con moto second movement is close to perfection: a touch of the forward-striding hiker but far from unbending. There are moments of a quite visionary loveliness: like... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 3 out of 5 stars More…

As so often with Ivan Fischer, it's the breadth of insight that impresses here...the outer movements and Scherzo have plenty of muscular energy, and yet the lines can sing too...The recorded... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 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…

The orchestra is balanced upwards, cast loose from a compact bass line that is too discreet for its own good at those many points...But if the symphony’s ‘heavenly lengths’ have left you cold... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…