Weekend Unfinished Spring Music

 

One of the first classical music recordings we owned in our youth was Franz  Schubert's Symphony #8 in B Minor (the "Unfinished Symphony"), as performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fritz Reiner at Chicago's Orchestra Hall on March 26, 1960.  The lyrical tone and pastoral melodies, not to mention the album cover, have evoked the beginning of Spring to us ever since, which is why it's become a Hackwhackers tradition to offer it at this time of year when the daffodils, forsythia and cherry blossoms are at peak. Take 24 minutes off and enjoy some of the most beautiful music ever created.