Robin Ticciati & SCO - Schumann: The Symphonies - New York Times

If Robert Schumann had been a really fine orchestrator - or if he were not the bumbler in that regard that conventional wisdom holds him to be - would his symphonies be more popular today? At the moment it is hard to see how they could be.

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And two more complete cycles of the Schumann symphonies have appeared on CD since, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Deutsche Grammophon, and Robin Ticciati leading the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Linn Records. Schumann's flawed but endlessly inspiriting symphonies, it seems, have never been more alive.

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Mr. Ticciati's recording with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra shares Mr. Nézet-Séguin's approach in many ways (18 violinists, 1851 version of the Fourth Symphony) and is eminently respectable.