Sublime Schubert

Although nicknamed ‘Tragic’, it’s the symphony’s bubbly vitality and sublime melodies that impress. Schubert’s composing career lasted less than 20 years, but he produced an enormous number of compositions. However, because of Beethoven’s prominence at the time, Schubert’s fourth symphony, completed in 1816, didn’t receive a public première until 1849, more than two decades after the composer’s death.