Sir John Eliot Gardiner has recorded Schumann's symphonies before, with his period-instrument group, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. It's nevertheless good to have this modern-instrument reading, and not because Gardiner rethinks his approach. For the most part, he doesn't, although he does tweak the tempos, sometimes substantially: the slow movement of the Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38, is sped up a good deal and turns into a sort of parade of colors. Rather, the appeal is that Gardiner, here and on ...
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner has recorded Schumann's symphonies before, with his period-instrument group, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. It's nevertheless good to have this modern-instrument reading, and not because Gardiner rethinks his approach. For the most part, he doesn't, although he does tweak the tempos, sometimes substantially: the slow movement of the Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38, is sped up a good deal and turns into a sort of parade of colors. Rather, the appeal is that Gardiner, here and on the other album of a pair covering the other two Schumann symphonies, successfully transfers the virtues of his approach to a modern symphony, the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded live at the Barbican and sounding great. It's not claiming too much to say that Gardiner is one of the conductors who set in motion a reevaluation of Schumann's symphonies, which were considered poorly orchestrated when they were played with a large, undifferentiated mass of strings. Gardiner cut the size...
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