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Generally, these performances are thrilling, and Bis’s engineering team complements them with equally thrilling recorded sound. If you want a box of Schumann symphonies in something approaching... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dausgaard secures superbly incisive playing from the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Dausgaard favours swift tempos, especially in the outer movements...[His] penchant for disjunctive phrasing, and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There's much to be said for Thomas Dausgaard's unmannered approach to Bruckner's Fourth Symphony…Furthermore, the playing of the Bergen Philharmonic, captured here in superbly vivid sound, is... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Right from the opening fanfares, there's a sense of joy and exhilaration, and the openness of the orchestral textures brings freshness and clarity. The ensemble’s lithe flexibility is used to... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 7th March 2008 More…

This is a magnificent performance of a notoriously controversial work…Dausgaard is shaping up, on the strength of this and his previous Bruckner recording of the Fifth, as a much-needed fresh... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Dausgaard is not the first conductor to use the 1841 version of the D minor Symphony… but… this performance, given by an orchestra of the size of Schumann himself would have known brings it... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…