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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life.
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life.
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Following their award-winning Mendelssohn cycle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra embark on a new journey through the symphonies of Robert Schumann.
Gardiner feels the Schumann symphonies are criticised unfairly and with these recordings he is on a mission to dispel the cobweb of myths around these symphonic masterpieces.
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Schumann from John Eliot Gardiner and the LSO
20th Sep 2019
The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner begin their Schumann cycle with exhilarating, agile performances of the Second and Fourth symphonies.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week20th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Symphonic Music
December 2019
Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life.
20th September 2019
In Gardiner's hands the brilliance of Schumann’s original orchestration...his lean, taut approach makes for a highly persuasive case for Schumann’s original conception. As he did throughout his Mendelssohn cycle, the way that Gardiner achieves crystal clarity of texture is most impressive, with all of the woodwind counterpoint coming across easily...Every bar is alive with energy and purpose, and there really is never a dull moment.
29th September 2019
The LSO respond with elan to the bracing textures, confounding the cliché that Schumann “couldn’t orchestrate”. Gardiner chooses the 1841 version of the D minor work, No 4, which the LSO play as if discovering it anew.
