Wagner: The Flying Dutchman Overture; Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, "Great"

For the third in this series of recordings drawn fromhis archive of concerts with Orquestra SinfonicaPortuguesa (see also Prokofiev and Rimsky-Korsakovon FHR146; Abril, Falla and Weber with TeresaBerganza on FHR153), alvaro Cassuto has turned tomusic from the late Classical and mid-Romantic erasin a coupling of Schubert and Wagner. Written lessthan 15 years apart, these two pieces inhabit verydifferent aesthetics while having a common link inBeethoven.