Mr. Weil led the Classical Band at Carnegie Hall last season, and is supposed to record the Schubert symphonies with the group.

Delos is also recording the complete Schubert symphonies, conducted by Gerard Schwarz, the orchestra's music director.

Previous printings of this Schubert symphony have treated similar markings as diminuendos - gradated diminishments of volume.

Mr. Wand returned to Cologne in 1977 to begin an extensive recording project that included all the Bruckner and Schubert symphonies.

A scholarship enabled Mr. Gamiel to attend music school as a teen-ager, where, he said, "I heard my first glorious Schubert symphony, and the world opened up for me."

They have performed Mendelssohn and early Schubert symphonies and aspire in the near future to Schumann's Piano Concerto.

The consultant also dragged one of the station's programmers into a listening room, put on a Schubert symphony and asked, "When is he going to get to the point?"

This is the first Schubert symphony which does not begin with a slow introduction.

Then, in 1994, it was back to the Concertgebouw for the complete Schubert symphonies.

In Mr. Berio's construction of a Schubert symphony - "Rendering for Orchestra" (1988-90) - there was no ambiguity.