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The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
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Release Date: 11th Feb 1998
Catalogue No: 4575912
Label: DG Archiv
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

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Schumann: Symphony in G minor 'Zwickau'

Work length18:34

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-10-13
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Moderato - Allegro

Track length10:37

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2. Andantino - Intermezzo:Allegro assai - Andantino

Track length7:57

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Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'

Work length30:12

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-05-24
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace

Track length10:54

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2. Larghetto

Track length6:22

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3. Scherzo (Molto vivace)

Track length5:15

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4. Allegro animato e grazioso

Track length7:41

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Schumann: Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op. 52

Work length16:58

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-05-24
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Overture (Andante con moto - allegro)

Track length6:03

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2. Scherzo (vivo)

Track length4:37

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3. Finale (Allegro molto vivace)

Track length6:18

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Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

Work length24:00

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-05-24
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Andante con moto - Allegro di molto

Track length8:18

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2. Romanza: Andante

Track length3:48

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3. Scherzo: Presto

Track length5:07

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4. Largo - Finale: Allegro vivace

Track length6:47

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Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

Work length37:49

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-10-13
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo - Con fuoco

Track length12:11

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2. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)

Track length7:01

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3. Adagio espresssivo

Track length10:08

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4. Allegro molto vivace

Track length8:29

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Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns, Op. 86

Work length17:45

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Roger Montgomery (horn), Susan Dent (horn), Robert Maskell (horn), Gavin Edwards (horn)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-10-13
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Lebhaft -

Track length7:06

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2. Romanze

Track length5:02

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3. Sehr lebhaft

Track length5:37

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Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'Rhenish'

Work length29:52

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-10-13
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Lebhaft

Track length8:50

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2. Scherzo (Sehr mäßig)

Track length5:53

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3. Nicht schnell

Track length4:37

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4. Feierlich

Track length4:55

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5. Lebhaft

Track length5:37

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Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

Work length27:37

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1997-05-24
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft

Track length9:57

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2. Romanze (Ziemlich langsam)

Track length3:38

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3. Scherzo

Track length4:50

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4. Etwas zurückhaltend - Langsam

Track length1:32

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5. Lebhaft

Track length7:40

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2010

The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
Gardiner offers both versions of Symphony No 4, 1841 and 1851, and his performances of them are very well geared to bringing out the contrasts.
Still more fascinating is the inclusion of both the early, incomplete Symphony in G minor, and the Konzertstück of 1849 for four horns, with the ORR soloists breathtaking in their virtuosity in the outer movements, using horns with rotary valves crooked in F. Otherwise, except in three specified movements, natural horns are used, braying clearly through orchestration which always used to be condemned as too thick. In his note, Gardiner fairly points out the merits of the 1841 version in transparency and other qualities, suggesting, as others have, that the doublings in the later version make it safer and more commonplace. Paradoxically in performance, Gardiner is if anything even more electrifying in the later, more thickly upholstered version, as ever clarifying textures and building up to a thrilling conclusion. Even the Zwickauer Symphony of 1832 emerges as very distinctive of Schumann.
The contrasts between Gardiner and Goodman in their approach to the numbered works aren't as marked as expected, often as much a question of scale and recording quality as of interpretative differences, with Goodman's orchestra more intimate, and with the RCA sound a degree less brightly analytical. Both prefer fast speeds, with Goodman a shade more relaxed and Gardiner more incisive, pressing ahead harder, with syncopations – so important in Schumann – more sharply dramatic. One advantage that Gardiner has in his slightly bigger scale is that he brings out more light and shade, offering a wider dynamic range. Hence the solemn fourth movement of the Rhenish Symphony inspired by Cologne Cathedral – as with Goodman taken at a flowing speed – builds up more gradually in a bigger, far longer crescendo, in the end the more powerful for being held back at the start. Though the Goodman set still holds its place, Gardiner offers a conspectus of Schumann as symphonist that's all the richer and more illuminating for the inclusion of the extra rarities.

2011 edition

Gardiner offers the most revelatory insights of all and includes not just the four regular symphonies but a complete survey of Schumann as symphonist. He seeks specifically to explode the myth that Schumann was a poor orchestrator.

Schumann - Complete Symphonies

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