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Hi Res Download, Schmidt, F (composer)
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Järvi is an almost ideal interpreter of this composer, not only managing to bring transparency and luminosity to Schmidt’s often thickly textured orchestration, but also keeping a tight rein... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Orchestral
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This is a golden performance…the opening is a transparent babbling brook…strings sweep forward in far from generic melody…[the central variations] balance sweetness with will-o’-the-wisp fantasy... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Recording of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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[Berman invests] sufficient energy and dedication in his interpretations to allow the music to speak directly and fervently to the listener. It ’s also clear that members of the orchestra, the... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 & Josephs-Legende
Marcy Chanteaux (cello)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Special offer. Schmidt, F: Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book of the Seven Seals)
Johannes Chum (tenor), Robert Holl (bassbaritone), Sandra Trattnigg (soprano), Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Manfred Hemm (bass) & Robert Kovács (organ)
Tonkünstler orchester Niederösterreich & Wiener Singverein, Kristjan Järvi
Where this new version really trumps both the magisterial… Mitropoulos and the over-boxy… Harnoncourt is in the quality of the recording itself, excitingly atmospheric… and… throated choral... —
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Let there be doubt, Franz Schmidt's Fourth (1933) is one of the finest of 20th-century symphonies...Sinaisky's previous recordings in this series have shown him to be a most sympathetic interpreter...So... —