Word: schubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second on the program was the Schubert Third Symphony. Musicians claim that Schubert's early orchestral scores were written with a student orchestra in mind, but no student orchestra ever existed with a woodwind section that could handle Schubert...
...which was decked with enough floral tributes to do justice to a gangster's funeral. But tall, ample Lotte Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of her fading day, making her 18th annual appearance at Manhattan's Town Hall, still nervously clutched a handkerchief as she sang Schubert's Müllerin song cycle. Said she, afterwards: "The first concert in New York is always difficult. The heart goes like that! It is like having again a difficult examination...
...probably for these reasons that Koussevitzky rarely plays classical music, and never pre-classical. Little Haydn, no Handel, and no Schubert is heard in Boston. Koussevitzky's selections among Romantic composers are generally restricted to that Virgil Thomson calls "the symphonists that descend from Brahms'--Tchaikovsky, Sibelius...
...Schubert: Songs from Winterreise (Lotte Lehmann; Columbia, 6 sides). A great soprano concludes for Columbia a haunting series of songs about rejected love, which she began for Victor in 1940. Performance: excellent...
...Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C Major (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Sir Thomas makes a better showing than Schubert in one of the first recordings of a little-heard work that sounds like second-drawer Mozart...