Robin Ticciati & SCO - Schumann: Symphonies - Bay Area Reporter

2015's best in classical recordings

I hear MTT is kicking up a storm with the Schumann symphonies at Davies. After reading the entrails of complete sets by Nezet-Seguin and Rattle late last year, I was delighted by Robin Ticciati's, for Linn, last January. Ticciati is the best today at getting period-sensitive sonorities and playing out of a "regular" band, his Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and he followed up this noble yet buoyant Schumann set, simply the best I've heard, with a delectable set of Haydn D Major symphonies (31, 70 & 101) with SCO at year's end.