Bizet Symphony in C

With some composers who died young, it is possibe to take consolation in the large body of work which they still managed to produce. It is harder to do that with Bizet who composed only one truly great masterpiece, though there are still some little miracles in his music. I have always had a soft spot for the teenage Symphony in C, with an LP of it amongst the first records which I bought. I assume I like it a lot partly because it looks back so much to classical forms and is lighter and simpler than other romantic symphonies of the same period. Maybe it is just a matter of some really beaiutiful tunes. It is shocking to think that this symphony was only perfomed 80 years after it was written and 60 years after the composer's death at the age of 37.