Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim: Schubert I

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 1 in D, D82
Symphony No. 3 in D, D200
Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D125

Pierre Boulez Saal, 22 April 2017

As anniversaries go, a 220th isn’t perhaps the most eye-catching. Nonetheless, Daniel Barenboim and the Pierre Boulez Saal are choosing to mark the eleven-score years since the birth of Franz Schubert with a broad-ranging Projekt, featuring all the songs (spread over a few seasons), the piano sonatas (with Barenboim at the piano) and the symphonies (with Barenboim on the podium).

But within the modest proportions and egalitarian in-the-round configuration of Berlin's newest classical venue, this concert, the first in one of two complete symphony cycles, was every bit as much about the Staatskapelle as the Staatsoper’s Generalmusikdirektor...

[Read the full review at Bachtrack]