Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485
Recorded by U-Sophia's Stream-Team.Allegro
Andante con moto
Menuetto: Allegro molto
Allegro vivace
Not until his 'Unfinished', in 1822, did Schubert produce a genuinely vanguard symphony. Yet to suggest that the Unfinished displayed a wholly new side of his personality would be misleading. The signs were already there, in the volatile energy of the second and third symphonies and in the implications of the 'Tragic' (No 4 in C minor). In No 5, he poured some of his airiest melodies into a limpidly classical mould, half Haydn and half Mozart, yet made it sound utterly Schubertian.
