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Following a highly successful series Mendelssohn in Birmingham, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their former Chief Conductor Edward Gardner here presents the first volume in a new surround-sound series: Schubert Symphonies.This first volume comprises of three symphonies spanning across Schuberts short productive composing life. His Symphony No. 3 (1815), with its extensive and evolving slow introduction modelled on late Haydn is followed by the culminating distillation of Schubertian classicism that is his little Symphony No. 5 (1816). Scored for chamber orchestra, it tells of much more of an influence of Mozart, for whom Schubert seemed to have felt a special affinity with around this time. Completing the album is Schuberts much more intense (with a turbulent first movement and serene second) Symphony No. 8 unfinished (1822), of which only the first two movements and a skeleton sketch of a third Scherzo movement were completed.