Exploring Music Playlist: Unfinished Symphonies
Schubert wasn’t the only composer who passed from this earth with an incomplete symphony on his shelf. Elgar, Mahler, Bruckner and other symphonists left fantastic but tantalizingly unfinished material that Bill will feature. Varied and unusual stories explain why each one of these works remained unfinished on its shelf and buried deep in the back of our composers’ minds.
| Monday Schubert, Franz: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (excerpt) Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber Schubert Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8 DG 2531 124 00:30 Schubert, Franz/Newbould, Brian : Symphony in D, D. 615, I. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 4:15 Schubert/Newbould: Symphonic Fragments, D. 708A, I. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 2:55 Schubert/Newbould: Symphonic Fragments, D. 708A, III. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 8:13 Schubert/Newbould: Symphony No.7 in E, D. 729 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 19:30 Schubert, Franz: Symphony No.9 in C, III. (excerpt) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 00:20 Schubert/Newbould: Symphony No.7 in E, D. 729 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner The 10 Symphonies Phil 412176 14:48 Tuesday Schubert, Franz: Symphony No.8 in B Minor, D. 759, Unfinished I. (excerpt) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Carlos Kleiber Symphonien Nos. 3 & 8 Unfinished DG 449745 10:42 Schubert, Franz: Symphony No.8 in B Minor, D. 759, Unfinished II. (excerpt) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Carlos Kleiber Symphonien Nos. 3 & 8 Unfinished DG 449745 1:18 Schubert/Newbould: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, Unfinished III. IV. Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields/ Neville Marriner Symphony No. 8 / Fragments D.708 A Phil 412590 13:35 Schubert/Newbould: Symphony No. 10 in D, D. 936A I. II. III. Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields/ Neville Marriner The Academy in Concert Phil 412591 27:28 Wednesday Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No.9 in D Minor, WAB 109, III. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink Symphony No. 9 Phil 410039 24:43 Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No.9 in D Minor, WAB 109, IV. Bruckner Orchester Linz/Kurt Eichhorn Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Camerata 15002 30:11 Thursday Mahler, Gustav/Cooke, Deryck : Excerpts from Cooke’s 1960 BBC lecture on Mahler’s 10th Symphony Deryck Cooke Symphony No.10 – Deryck Cooke Performing Version Testament 1457 3:23 Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 10, I. (excerpt) Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy Symphony No. 10 Sony 67874 9:43 Mahler/Cooke: Excerpts from Cooke’s 1960 BBC lecture on Mahler’s 10th Symphony Deryck Cooke Symphony No.10 /Deryck Cooke Performing Version Testament 1457 2:30 Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No. 10, IV. V. Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy Symphony No. 10 Sony 67874 33:03 Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No. 10, V. (excerpt) Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy Symphony No. 10 Sony 67874 :27 Friday Elgar, Edward/Payne, Anthony: Symphony No. 3 I. (excerpt) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis; Payne, narrator The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 4:47 Elgar/Payne: Symphony No. 3, Sketches of II. Symphonic Scherzo Robert Gibbs, violin; David Owen Norris, piano The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 00:55 Elgar/Payne: Symphony No. 3, II. Scherzo BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 9:39 Elgar/Payne: Sketches from Symphony No. 3, III. Adagio (excerpt) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 :14 Elgar/Payne: Symphony No. 3, III. Adagio BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 15:33 Elgar/Payne: Symphony No. 3, IV. Allegro BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis The Sketches for Symphony No. 3, Commentary by Anthony Payne NMC D052/053 14:32 Bach, P.D.Q. (Peter Schickele): Unbegun Symphony, plus introduction (excerpt) Royal P.D.Q. Bach Festival Orchestra/Jorge Mester An Hysteric Return P.D.Q. Bach At Carnegie Hall Van 79223 8:10 |