Schubert/ Royal Flemish Philharmonic - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 3 & 4 Fulfilled By FYE by Mason Bates with poetry

by Mason Bates with poetry from Kenneth Koch

Ravel and Strauss

It's a moment trapped in amber - you can't listen to this 7" without imagining a graffiti strewn subway car in New York

completely stylistically different

Schubert/ Royal Flemish Philharmonic - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 3 & 4 Fulfilled By FYE by Mason Bates with poetryAlthough Franz Schubert's earliest symphonies are sometimes considered youthful works of a composer still learning his trade, they nonetheless attest to a genius of symphonic construction such as few musicians could boast at, respectively, 16 (Symphony No. 1), 18 (Symphony No. 3) or 19 years of age (Symphony No. 4). Despite these promising beginnings, Schubert would be only sporadically published during his lifetime approximately one tenth of his