Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano
Schubert
The year 1818 saw 21-year-old Franz Schubert, who had regularly written symphonies up to then, plunge into a crisis. Was this caused by a feeling of helplessness in the face of the radical political changes of the day? Or was it the comparison with Beethoven? »Who can produce anything after Beethoven?!« - thus Schubert. Notwithstanding, Schubert couldn’t get the main theme of his future »Great Symphony« out of his mind.
In the end, Schubert’s Eighth Symphony was to be his legacy in the genre, full of signals and calls that promise a new future. The work contains »singing without end«, as Robert Schumann later said, it is music of »heavenly lengths«. Schubert paints a picture of a society that longs for peace and liberty, a society in a cheerful and festive mood.
Performers
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Ulla Hahn narrator
conductor Kent Nagano
Programme
Franz Schubert
Auszüge aus Rosamunde D 797 / mit Texten von Ulla Hahn (Uraufführung)
Sinfonie Nr. 8 C-Dur D 944 »Große«
Estimated end time
22:00