Symphony No 2 / Overtures
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Symphony No 2 / Overtures
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 September 2013
In the year of Abbado's 80th birthday (26. June), this album celebrates a true legend of the world of classical music.
Claudio Abbado's interpretation of the Second Symphony is his first recording of a Schumann symphony for DG. The noble "Genoveva" and stirring "Manfred" overtures are exalted additions to this album.
About his Second as performed at the Lucerne Easter Festival, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung extolled Abbado's reading as of "the purest beauty", while Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel found Abbado's way with the symphony "liberating".
Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2013
"As far as one can tell, they are not using period instruments, but the timbres are transparent and Abbado's scrupulous attention to detail bears fruit...He emphasises Schumann's lyricism at the expense of his weightier moments" (The Observer)
"Abbado's metrical freedoms won't please all, but this exhilarating and passionate music-making certainly doesn't sound like a conductor's swansong." (The Times)
"Right from the slow introduction's mysterious opening bars, this is a compelling account of the C major Second Symphony, imbued with Abbado's characteristic attention to detail, and the sharply pointed rhythms he obtains from his augmented Orchestra Mozart." BBC Music Magazine, October 2013 ***/*****
Tracks:
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
Genoveva Overture
