But it’s also because the piece—like Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony or Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”—belongs to that cherished class of works that achieve greatness despite their ...
The program journeyed from the solemnity and foreboding of Bellini’s Norma Overture (from his 1831 opera), through the melancholic beauty of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (No. 8 in B minor ...