Symphonies no. 5 & 8 "Unfinished"

Album by Franz Schubert & San Francisco Symphony & Herbert Blomstedt

Symphonies No. 5 and No. 8 "Unfinished" are orchestral compositions by Austrian composer Franz Schubert, composed in 1816 and 1822 respectively. No. 5 displays a classical clarity and chamber-like orchestration with buoyant thematic writing, while the Unfinished's surviving movements are more expansive and lyrical, with richer harmonic shading and an episodic, brooding character that points toward Schubert's movement into the Romantic symphonic idiom and altered expectations for early 19th-century orchestral expression.