Schumann
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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... — More…
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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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Mein Traum
RecommendedSchubert, Weber, Schumann
Stéphane Degout (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Degout is convincing throughout, his expressive range spanning both ferocity and vulnerability...The real stars, though, are the period orchestra Pygmalion. The instrumental colours glow and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life. — More…
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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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Janowski enables the listener to hear right inside the score, but the total experience of each symphony as a romantic (and Romantic) journey proves more elusive. — More…
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He’s far from the first to do so, but Roth makes the once-heretical case, through judicious observance of the score and an acute ear for sonority, that Schumann knew what he was doing… The slimmer... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Now in his late 70s, John Eliot Gardiner seems to have embarked on a second spring rather than an Indian summer. The Schumann symphonies on his second instalment of the cycle are bottled sunshine…you... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th February 2020
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Offer,
Simon Rattle conducts Schumann’s Symphonies Recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie in February und November 2013
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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The first thing to be said about this Schumann cycle is how splendidly alert the orchestral playing is: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra must be one of the finest ensembles of its kind in the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Orchestral Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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