Gustavo Dudamel’s favorite Schubert recordings
Jessye Norman and Alfred Brendel are among the many who’ve made Schubert’s music immortal.
Unfinished works of art are appealing in their mystery. What did their creators intend? Unfortunately, the answers to that question are rarely as satisfying as the mystery itself. For Gustavo Dudamel, only having two movements of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony lets us live with the composer a little while longer–suspended in a space of infinite possibility.
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