Gardner Schubert Symphonies
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Gardner is very much on his way to Beechamesque status, though with very clear ideas of his own…Gardner keeps the firm rhythmic definition and a certain elegance of phrasing in the great Unfinished... —
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The CBSO plays admirably throughout, and the Chandos recording is attractively spacious. —
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Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 – Nos. 2 & 6 & Italian Overtures
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
This recording is perhaps more valuable for the two overtures, both written around the same time as the Sixth Symphony, than for the symphonies themselves. Not that Edward Gardner and the CBSO... —
