Gramophone Magazine
June 2025
Editor's Choice

Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

Schumann: Symphony in G Minor, WoO 29 "Zwickauer"
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, WAB 100 "Annuliert"

Following the success of his Beethoven and Schubert recordings, Jordi Savall is now releasing his first album devoted to the composers Robert Schumann and Anton Bruckner. As you have come to expect from Alia Vox, he casts an entirely new light on a repertoire that has been unfairly for-gotten, starting with Robert Schumann's Zwickauer Symphony, of which he re-veals all the colours and ardour. The Symphony n*0, actually by Bruckner on the manuscript, also fascinated Jordi Savall with its spiritual dimension, which he restores with his customary attention to detail.

"With a performance even finer than that of the Bruckner, Savall gives Schumann’s early symphonic writing a weight, thrust and emotional impact that’s enormously involving, making it seem hardly inferior to the four symphonies that would follow." - Gramophone Magazine, June 2025