This is the less commonly available of two recordings made of a complete realization of Schubert's "Tenth" Symphony in D Major (D. 936A), a collection of piano sketches of parts of three movements with some instrumentation notes, which Schubert was working on during the very last days of his life. Even though Schubert may have intended the work to have only three movements, with the last serving as a combination Scherzo/Finale, for this recording Bartholomee adds in the scherzo from an earlier abandoned symphony in D Major (D. 780A) as the third movement; Schubert evidently recycled this prototype as the scherzo of the Great Symphony.

Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894) was a Belgian composer who died tragically young. He dedicated himself to composition from an early age, and was largely self-taught before César Franck took him under his wing. Unfortunately Franck died only a year later, after which Lekeu came under the tutelage of D'Indy, was befriended by Chausson, and received important commissions from the great Belgian violinisy Ysayë. The sublime Adagio for Strings on this disc, which Lekeu uncharacteristically never menions in his voluminous correspondence, was doubtless written in Franck's memory. The disc also contains Lekeu's major orchestral work, the Fantasy on two Angevin folk songs, and the touching symphonic study Ophélie, here given in its shorter (and to my mind better) version.