Album cover for Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 by LSO Live, featuring bold SCHUMANN text, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and an abstract blue, black, and orange background.

Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4

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'Every opportunity to perform the Schumann symphonies is an opportunity to marvel at their extraordinary profusion of ideas and poetic expression and to explore their kaleidoscopic originality. Each time it gives one a chance to vindicate Schumann as a master of symphonic form and instrumental colour, contrary to the dreary cliché that he couldn’t orchestrate.'
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Following the success of his Mendelssohn cycle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner turns to the music of Robert Schumann, launching an exploration of his symphonic works that begins with his Second and Fourth symphonies and a rare glimpse of his only opera.

Composer Robert Schumann
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Performers London Symphony Orchestra

1. Overture Genoveva

Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op. 120
2. Andante con moto - Allegro di molto
3. Romanza. Andante
4. Scherzo. Presto
5. Largo. Finale: Allegro vivace

Symphony No 2 in C Major, Op. 61
6. Sostenuto assai - Allegro, ma non troppo
7. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
8. Adagio espressivo
9. Allegro molto vivace

Release Date 20 September 2019
SACD LSO0818 | 0822231181828
Digital LSO0818-D | 0822231181866

Producer Nicholas Parker
Engineers Classic Sound Ltd
Recorded March 2018, Barbican, London

FLAC - 24bit 96kHz - Compatible with Windows and Android devices
MP3 - 320kbps - Universal compatibility
SACD - Compatible with all CD players

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Reviews

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‘Having been such a fan of Gardiner’s Mendelssohn recordings with the LSO, I had extremely high hopes for these Schumann symphonies, and so far my expectations have not just been met but easily surpassed.’

- Presto Classical, Album of the Week
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‘This CD has addictive potential.’

- Saarländischer Rundfunk, Album of the Week
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★★★★★
‘The Fourth Symphony is played in the 1841 version. Gardiner’s reading is lively and agile, slender and full of tension…The conductor also elicits entirely new aspects from the 2nd Symphony in D major.’

- Pizzicato