Five by Five - Concert No 2; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marc Taddei Schubert: Rosamunde Overture, Symphony No 5 in B flat major. This was the second of the five concerts of famous ...

The play - written in 1823 - is forgotten but the music for it remains and it's some of Schubert's best. Light-hearted and playful, these nine short pieces describe the idylic life of Rosamunde, ...

From a concert they gave early this past summer in Germany, the Orchestra of the 18th Century plays music from a play called "Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus" that never really caught on. The music ...