Leader, Daniel Mclsa
Conductor, Eric Fogg
When Schubert died, his Unfinished Symphony, which had never been performed during his lifetime, lay hidden somewhere in the town of Gratz, of whose Musical Society Schubert was a member. It was for this Society that he is supposed to have composed the B minor Symphony. Ultimately, after years of fruitless search, the manuscript of the Unfinished Symphony was found.
Why it remained ' unfinished ', or whether, indeed, the composer's ultimate intention was ever to finish it at all, can never be known. We do know, however, that it was the work of a new Schubert, a genius for the first time probing the remoter depths of a mature imagination.