Schubert: Symphony No 9 etc – review

Budapest Festival O/Fischer (Channel Classics)Conductors generally approach Schubert's last symphony as if its nickname, the "Great C major", signalled something portentous, and so scale it up to match, continuing where Beethoven's Ninth left off, and in some performances almost anticipating Bruckner, rather than looking back towards the classical symphonists. But Iván Fischer's beautifully judged and lucidly presented performance takes the work's length as something utterly inevitable and ...

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