Symphony No. 8 in B minor / Symphonic Fragments in D major

Album by Franz Schubert & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Symphony No. 8 in B minor and the symphonic fragments in D major are orchestral works by Franz Schubert, composed in 1822 and in various years of the 1810s respectively. The B minor symphony is distinguished by its two completed movements, expansive lyricism and adventurous harmonic progressions that helped shape early Romantic symphonic practice, while the D major fragments present sketches that illuminate Schubert's evolving ideas about orchestral colour and formal development.