SACD, Schumann (composer)
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Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
RecommendedSally Matthews (Peri), Mark Padmore (narrator), Kate Royal (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Soloists from Guildhall School (Quartet)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Vivid detail and clear choral textures come over quite stunningly on both formats, but the Blu-ray has the edge...Sally Matthews doesn't quite catch the ethereal quality Gardiner's Barbara Bonney... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
[Pires] has the enviable ability to make everything sound fresh but natural, and her tone is enchanting...The definition on [the Blu-ray] is superb and the camera work actually helps the viewer... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gardiner [goes] all out for visceral sensation. The London performances bring the music most readily to life. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The art of vocal duetting is exemplified at its best in this recital by two of today’s finest British singers, working with an accompanist of equal merit…each singer has solo items…Yet the most... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Violin Concerto & Schumann: Piano Quartet
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, RCO Chamber Soloists, Bernard Haitink
A born Brahmsian, Ax gives full rein to the sheer massiveness of the First Piano Concerto, producing a performance of range and depth, intimately captured in this recording…the estimable Frank... —
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston
Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)
The duo fill their phrasing, rhythm and sense of momentum with bracing fresh air, bringing maximum exhilaration to a work that too often can seem to lack it. Poltéra’s tone leaps and glows –... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Generally, these performances are thrilling, and Bis’s engineering team complements them with equally thrilling recorded sound. If you want a box of Schumann symphonies in something approaching... —
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As Simon Johnson admits, presenting two hours of music based on just four notes doesn’t sound a tantalising prospect, but this double album is full of revelations… Altogether, this is a remarkable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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