Browse: Opening Doors (series)

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 vividly... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Right from the opening fanfares, there's a sense of joy and exhilaration, and the openness of the orchestral textures brings freshness and clarity. The ensemble’s lithe flexibility is used to... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 7th March 2008 More…

Here's an excitingly combative, and ultimately very plausible new look at Schubert...Dausgaard somehow manages to approach the surviving two movements of Schubert's B minor Symphony as though... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This clearly recorded performance is one to return to even if it does not displace either Kertész or Harnoncourt's classic interpretations. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Some might have dismissed these symphonies as imitations of the teenage Schubert's Classical heroes, but in Dausgaard's hands they emerge as elegant, lively scores already bearing the stamp of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

internal balance within the orchestra is dexterously managed by Thomas Dausgaard. And his pacing of the opening Adagio instils confidence, the line shaped by phrases stretched and contracted,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…