Frankly, It’s Worth The Risk…

Marcel Tyberg

When I give the world premiere performances of Marcel Tyberg’s two movement completion to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony with the Phoenix Symphony this week, I realize I am heading toward those inevitable questions that dog any effort to take a known gem and offer a fill for a curious crack.



 Is the crack, or in this case, the lacking two movements of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 worth worrying about? Perhaps the mystery of what those possible movements would have sounded like if he had continued work on the piece is sufficient?

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