Tag: Great C major

• Reprise

  October 17, 2016

  Classical music, Orchestral, Song, Symphony, Vocal

  Great C major, Schubert, winterreise

  Schubert’s last symphony – like much of the composer’s later work – has a darkness at its heart. As in the Adagio of his Octet, this emotional crisis occurs during the sonata-like reprise of the symphony’s second movement (Andante con moto). A fff outburst is followed by a shocked and traumatised total silence. The strings – still…