Schumann: The Complete Symphonies
Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado
This set starts very well. Pablo Heras-Casado’s performance of the ‘Spring’ Symphony is fresh and exhilarating with moments of warmth and tenderness, but also with that nervous, slightly edgy...
Schumann: The Complete Symphonies
Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado
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This set starts very well. Pablo Heras-Casado’s performance of the ‘Spring’ Symphony is fresh and exhilarating with moments of warmth and tenderness, but also with that nervous, slightly edgy...
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Four symphonies were enough for Robert Schumann to leave his mark. Without allowing himself to be overawed by Beethoven’s shadow, he succeeded from the outset in coining a highly personal idiom, with an astonishing combination of formal rigour and freedom of inspiration.
Pablo Heras-Casado and the Münchner Philharmoniker offer their interpretation of this corpus, more mysterious than it appears, which tells of its composer’s passionate and tormented soul.
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Awards and reviews
August 2022
This set starts very well. Pablo Heras-Casado’s performance of the ‘Spring’ Symphony is fresh and exhilarating with moments of warmth and tenderness, but also with that nervous, slightly edgy quality which marks out Schumann’s music even when he’s at his most determinedly affirmative...Somehow, though, the ‘Rhenish’ misses that sense of heightened joy in life…
July 2022
He plants his personality upon each symphony not via interpretative extremes but through the simple expedient of ensuring they are heard as clearly and plainly as possible.
