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The present installment features Franz Schubert’s Complete Symphonies and Rosamunde performed by the Staatskapelle Dresden with conductors Herbert Blomstedt and Willi Boskovsky.

Excerpt from a review of a previously released edition of this set:

Blomstedt grinds out the menacing climax of the first movement development in the “Unfinished” as well as anyone, and in “The Great” C major Symphony he shapes an eloquent interpretation without a single dead spot, culminating in an overwhelmingly energetic finale.

-- ClassicsToday.com (David Hurwitz)