The complete cycle of all eight Schubert symphonies in one recording from 2001 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel.
During his time as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra between 1993 and 2002, Lorin Maazel set programmatic accents with large compositional cycles. Not many conductors dare to take on the physical and intellectual challenge of a condensed concert series through the work of a composer.
After the Bruckner symphonies performed by Maazel in 1999 were published in a box on the BR-KLASSIK label with great success, the complete Schubert cycle, created two years later, is now available, which was again enthusiastically received by the Munich audience.
The eight symphonies composed between the years 1813 and 1825 testify to the astonishing development of the 16-year-old Schubert, who is still clearly oriented towards Haydn and Mozart, to become the composer of the Great Symphony in C major, which was a pioneering role in the history of the genre between Beethoven , Bruckner and Mahler claimed.
