Coll. Ed.: Schumann: Complete Symphonies; Das Paradies und die Peri[5 CD]

In John Eliot Gardiner s epoch-making Schumann recordings for Archiv Produktion all collected here, including his wonderful (BBC Music Magazine) reading of Das Paradies und die Peri the composer s music is brought to incomparable physical life with glowing period instruments under inspirational direction and perfectly recorded ... Gardiner has a seemingly effortless command of long-term architecture and captures light and shade as well as intimacy and grandeur (Gramophone).