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The Sunday Times has published its annual Top 100 list featuring its picks of the best recordings of the year. The 2014 list awards the number 9 spot to Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for its impressive performance of Schumann Symphonies.
In summing up the Sunday Times wrote, 'In a competitive year, Ticciati's lithe, youthful accounts of the great works produced the trump card', placing Ticciati's recording above those of Simon Rattle & The Berlin Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin & The Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
This fantastic recording has accumulated a wealth of great reviews:
Classical CD of the Week: 'Ticciati adopts near-ideal tempi, refusing to drag in the slow movements...and he is propulsive in Schumann's energetic, animated allegros.' The Sunday Times
'The Adagio of Symphony No. 2 is beautifully done, with a coda that really tugs at the heartstrings...the interpretations...will reward repeated hearing.' BBC Music Magazine
‘...the finest set on disc [in] a decade...and perhaps the most impressive thing that Ticciati has done on disc so far... hearing these symphonies in such superbly played, convincingly Schumannesque performances is irresistible.' The Guardian