Orchestral, Overtures, Schumann (composer)
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
[Pires] has the enviable ability to make everything sound fresh but natural, and her tone is enchanting...The definition on [the Blu-ray] is superb and the camera work actually helps the viewer... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Schumann - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedRoger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Gavin Edwards, Robert Maskell (horns)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
Gardiner offers... —Awards:
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Building a Library, November 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra: The Forgotten Recordings
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Szell later re-recorded almost all the repertoire, but it’s fascinating to hear the partnership when their much-vaunted precision was well in progress, if not immaculate...Best of all are Schumann’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Historical Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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Right from the slow introduction's mysterious opening bars, this is a compelling account of the C major Second Symphony, imbued with Abbado's characteristic attention to detail, and the sharply... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Invitation: Mozart, Mendelssohn & Schumann
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Irish Chamber Orchestra
The most satisfying playing comes when the entire ensemble unites for an effective and joyous reading of Schumann's protosymphonic Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op. 52. Jörg Widmann addresses... —
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Dausgaard is not the first conductor to use the 1841 version of the D minor Symphony… but… this performance, given by an orchestra of the size of Schumann himself would have known brings it... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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Right from the opening fanfares, there's a sense of joy and exhilaration, and the openness of the orchestral textures brings freshness and clarity. The ensemble’s lithe flexibility is used to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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…these are generally first-rate performances that keep the fine Swedish Chamber Orchestra on its toes throughout, and render Schumann's textures admirably transparent. —
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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