Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Herreweghe's account of [the Rhenish] is everything a period-instrument Schumann performance should be - full of muscular, energetic playing, with every fleck of colour in the orchestration...
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Herreweghe's account of [the Rhenish] is everything a period-instrument Schumann performance should be - full of muscular, energetic playing, with every fleck of colour in the orchestration...
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1841-1851: ten years elapsed between the premieres of the most popular symphonies of Robert Schumann. Commentators have long deplored the ‘thickness' of the composer's orchestration; however, performance on period instruments not only demonstrates conclusively that this is not the case, but also underlines even more clearly the duality of his personality. From the ‘Spring' to the dark presentiments of the ‘Rhenish', should we not see Schumann's extraordinarily dense counterpoint as the reflection of his inner demons?
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18th May 2007
Herreweghe's account of [the Rhenish] is everything a period-instrument Schumann performance should be - full of muscular, energetic playing, with every fleck of colour in the orchestration thrillingly clear...But in the first, the Spring Symphony, Herreweghe sticks religiously to the metronome markings that Schumann put in the score, and the performance never takes off.
