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  • Without reservation.  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    Find Robert Schumann in his symphonies is always a pleasure, these are works that are never quite played and who for unknown reasons are rarely in the symphony orchestras in repertoire turned home. Why? There is no insurmountable difficulties, howeve
  • Schumann sometimes overlooked ...  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    The works of Schumann in his later piano music (ie d composed after his marriage to Clara Wieck) do not always known the favors musicologists, columnists, commentators and other "authorized". Yet these four symphonies (+ scherzo and finale opene
  • "Feierlich" is not "pompous"  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    I can only associate myself with the comments already posted here, with a little flat. Schumann has never excelled in the symphonic genre, as evidenced receptions often cost his orchestral works ... and many rewrites. The piano much better suited to
  • Good use of a compact orchestration  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    Wolfgang Sawallisch, willingly rational leader, did not seem a priori the most comfortable with Schumann's orchestration, fairly compact and even supported or redundant. He did not choose to betray Schumann, although it clarifies the extent possible;
  • A great cycle, but less homogeneous than they say  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    The quality of the Schumann cycle is well known: the famous Dresden Staatskapelle it sounds like she's magnificent orchestra. Wolfgang Sawallisch is excellent in the Second Symphony and the rarest Overture, Scherzo and Finale (you can listen and list
  • Schumann Symphonies by Wolfgang Sawallisch in Dresden: fluidity, balance and lyricism  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    This integral recorded in the early 1970s by Wolfgang Sawallisch was always admired by his unifying virtues felt perfectly approach end and generously stamped orchestra, all led by strong and inspired leadership that obscures transient "heaviness&quo
  • A memorable full  

    Schumann: The 4 Symphonies - Openings - Scherzo & Finale (CD)
    Admirable composer of piano pieces, instrument in which he excelled, Schumann is said to have been much less capable in the development of a great melody line or the establishment of a symphonic orchestration worthy of the name. This integral, headed