Meticulously engineered with an airy transparency once thought impossible in Schumann, these vibrant performances blow off the musical cobwebs.

BBC Music Magazine, October 2015

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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

Odense Symfoniorkester, Simon Gaudenz

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Meticulously engineered with an airy transparency once thought impossible in Schumann, these vibrant performances blow off the musical cobwebs.

BBC Music Magazine, October 2015

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A Dazzling Schumann from Denmark: A fresh, new approach against the background of historically informed performance practice characterizes this captivating SACD recording of Schumann’s symphonies.

Release date: 29th Jun 2015
Label: CPO
Catalogue number: 777925-2
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Genre:
- Symphonies

Contents and tracklist

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

Work length29:21

Odense Symfoniorkester
Simon Gaudenz

I. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace

Track length10:23

II. Larghetto

Track length6:23

III. Scherzo. Molto vivace

Track length5:00

IV. Allegro animato e grazioso

Track length7:35

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

Work length26:48

Odense Symfoniorkester
Simon Gaudenz

I. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft

Track length9:46

II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam

Track length3:28

III. Scherzo. Lebhaft -

Track length6:25

IV. Langsam - Lebhaft

Track length7:09

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

Work length38:01

Odense Symfoniorkester
Simon Gaudenz

I. Sostenuto assai

Track length12:06

II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

Track length6:52

III. Adagio espressivo

Track length11:13

IV. Allegro molto vivace

Track length7:50

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

Work length30:18

Odense Symfoniorkester
Simon Gaudenz

I. Lebhaft

Track length9:06

II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig

Track length5:51

III. Nicht schnell

Track length4:48

IV. Feierlich

Track length5:30

V. Lebhaft

Track length5:03

Awards and reviews

October 2015

Meticulously engineered with an airy transparency once thought impossible in Schumann, these vibrant performances blow off the musical cobwebs.

September 2015

These are spirited, full-orchestral, modern-instrument performances captured in an acoustic (the Carl Nielsen Hall in Odense) that clarifies lines…the main problem, though, is Gaudenz's over-literal approach to tempo

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