Schubert's Symphony No 5 is a true masterpiece of Mozartean classicism, its orchestra pared down from the relative excesses of the 'Tragic' No 4 (written earlier the same year—Schubert was just nineteen) in a manner which proved profoundly liberating for its composer. Brahms, similarly, took a step back in his Serenade No 2, a work that is symphonic in scale but in the guise of a classical divertimento. Both works are perfectly suited to the forces of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.