Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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Well known for his deep scepticism and deliberate avoidance of performing tradition, Harnoncourt breathes new life into the music by looking afresh at the sources and encouraging his players... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
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Karl Böhm's Beethoven is a compound of earth and fire. His VPO recording of Beethoven's Sixth of 1971 dominated the LP catalogue for over a decade, and has done pretty well on CD on its various... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The period instruments bring a litheness and transparency, with vigour in the third movement allegro molto [in No. 5], the more pastorally phrased interlude liltingly done by the B’Rock, before... — More…
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Record Review, 21st August 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Abbado's is an outstanding set in every way. Rarely has he made recordings of the central Viennese classics which find him so naturally sunny and warm in his expression. The playing of the Chamber... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, April 2023, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 5
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Special offer. Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 'Unfinished'
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Record Review, 3rd June 2023, Record of the Week
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It’s a second-half sort of performance [of the Fifth], strongly marked, observing all the repeats, wrapped in Viennese legato and finished off with a dash of gentility like cream in coffee…The... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Nouveauté
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Special offer. Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 8
RecommendedLondon Classical Players, Roger Norrington
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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Beecham was well into his seventies when he made these recordings with the Royal Philharmonic, the orchestra he had founded in 1946. His lightness of touch, his delight in the beauty of the... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gardner is very much on his way to Beechamesque status, though with very clear ideas of his own…Gardner keeps the firm rhythmic definition and a certain elegance of phrasing in the great Unfinished... — More…
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Very little about this release disappoints...Emelyanychev, directing his modern-instrument ensemble, guides the music as if from within, prioritising the natural flow of Schubert’s notes without... — More…
