Schumann romantic and yet gripping

Sawallisch has sometimes the appearance of a long hamlet, which no longer provides a solid craft and home cooking. This recording of Schumann's symphonies from 1972 he was, however, inspired audible and incontestable. He goes the whole hog here, save us boring neutrality and "middle of the road-" irrelevance. However, the most convincing argument for this recording is the orchestra, the paramount Staatskapelle Dresden. We know the special, dark primed sound and game culture this orchestra already from other top shots of German Romanticism (Kleiber's Freischütz, Karajan Meistersinger). Here they do it again, to astonish the listener to inspire, and to give Schumann exactly the sound that makes him unique.