Opening Doors
In 'Opening Doors', Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra explore the limits of what a chamber orchestra is traditionally expected to perform, playing symphonies and other orchestral works from the Romantic era with the smaller-than-usual forces of a modern-day chamber orchestra.
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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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Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are the latest team to make them sound like grown-up scores, worthwhile in their own right. Dausgaard's orchestra is small - 38 players - buit it... —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Some might have dismissed these symphonies as imitations of the teenage Schubert's Classical heroes, but in Dausgaard's hands they emerge as elegant, lively scores already bearing the stamp... —
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internal balance within the orchestra is dexterously managed by Thomas Dausgaard. And his pacing of the opening Adagio instils confidence, the line shaped by phrases stretched and contracted,... —
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Here's an excitingly combative, and ultimately very plausible new look at Schubert...Dausgaard somehow manages to approach the surviving two movements of Schubert's B minor Symphony as though... —
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This clearly recorded performance is one to return to even if it does not displace either Kertész or Harnoncourt's classic interpretations. —
