SCHUBERT: Symphony, "Death and the Maiden" (arr. A. Stein) / Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished" (completed by B. Newbould and M. Venzago) - Buffalo Philharmonic

Schubert’s music has been arranged by many other composers, though few have succeeded in amplifying the astonishing drama and pathos of a masterpiece such as the Death and the Maiden Quartet as has Andy Stein, who writes: ‘I have tried to create a late classical / early Romantic symphony out of this great chamber work, so that it perhaps would sound as if Schubert himself had conceived it in this form’. The reconstruction of the Scherzo of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony is based on fragments from the composer’s notebooks. The last movement uses segments from Schubert’s incidental music for Rosamunde, written shortly after he had set aside the Symphony, and which scholars believe may have been intended for its finale.

Schubert, Franz

Stein, Andy - Arranger

 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Der Tod und das Madchen" (Death and the Maiden) (arr. A. Stein for orchestra as Symphony in D Major)

Schubert, Franz

Venzago, Mario - Arranger

Newbould, Brian - Arranger

 Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, "Unfinished" (completed by B. Newbould and M. Venzago)