Kent Nagano, Marius Urba, Barbara Bode, Manuel Mischel, Gregor Moser

"Nature knows no standstill; true art walks hand in hand with it." Beethoven was convinced of this, yet his pioneering compositions posed an enormous hurdle for his successors. Schumann was determined to write symphonies but only felt able to do so after discovering in Vienna the unprinted manuscript of Schubert's "Great C major Symphony".