News & Press

5/21/2010
"IT'S LIKE HAVING A LAYER OF VARNISH REMOVED FROM A MUCH-LOVED PAINTING"
So said the Daily Telegraph of Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's new Schubert recording whilst the Financial Times commented "With brisk speeds and clean-cut attacks, he (Dausgaard) gives Schubert a period-style makeover without clamping the music in a straitjacket or making it sound superficial. Far from being a mere stylistic gloss, the result is full of sly insights."

In Germany meanwhile the Rheinische Post exclaimed "Now comes the phenomenal Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard sweeping in with a stormy Baltic Sea Wind ... and blowing through the world of Schubert ... This is not fast for speed's sake, but appears as a dramatic necessity". The Bayerische Rundfunk also paid tribute to the recording's "electrifying drive" and "revolutionary sound" and Denmark's national paper, Politiken, referred to the "sensitive and super precision" of the performance.

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4/17/2010
BBC RADIO 3
Andrew McGregor plays the first movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and reviews the disc:

"So far the Opening Doors-series has been a refreshing reappraisal of romantic repertoire. The cleanness and clearness of their chamber sized sound and the straight forward discipline of their approach has been seriously attractive from the start ...it's a crisp, clean account that somehow seems to strip away layers of silt to get a clear view of the colours underneath. Another fine recording of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard from BIS."

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4/5/2010
"FULL OF LIFE"
Featured on the UK's Classic FM Radio playlist this week is the orchestra's new recording of Schubert symphonies with Thomas Dausgaard. Playing extracts from the release every afternoon the recording is CD of the week and was welcomed by the presenter Anne-Marie Minhall with the comments "The ensemble is passionate about performing 19th-century symphonic works as a smaller chamber orchestra – and the resulting sound is taut, energetic and full of life!"
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3/26/2010
"FABELHAFT"
Concluding its recent European tour with concerts in Dusseldorf and Cologne, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra was received exuberantly by the local German press; "fabulous" wrote the Rheinische Post and "astonishing" exclaimed the Kölnische Rundschau.
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3/23/2010
"SWINGING SWEDES"
As the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and HK Gruber leave Vienna for concerts in Germany, Austria's leading paper, Die Presse, responds to their performance on Sunday at the Musikverein paying tribute to the orchestra's "rhythmic finesse, elegance and unmistakeable melodic flair for sweeping swing."
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3/12/2010
FIVE STAR REVIEW FROM SA-CD
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3/7/2010
"A WORTHWHILE ENCOUNTER WHICH CREATES AN APPETITE FOR MORE"
Spotlight in the Austrian press
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1/29/2010
LISTEN TO P2 LIVE AND THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Saturday 9th Januay at 3pm on P2 LIVE Klassiskt
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2/19/2009
AUSTRIAN DEBUT - NOVEMBER 2008
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard conducted their debut tour of Austria in November 2008, with concerts in Vienna and Bregenz for which they were joined by violinist Daniel Hope as soloist in a programme that comprised Beethoven Symphony no. 8, the Mendelssohn violin concerto and Schumann Symphony no. 4 (original version).

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4/10/2008
USA TOUR MARCH 30 - APRIL 6 2008
In 2008 the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro, embarked on its third US tour with performances in six cities: New York, North Bethesda, Cleveland, Palm Desert, Costa Mesa and Berkeley. The orchestra was joined by solo pianist Piotr Anderszewski.
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7/20/2007
COPENHAGEN, TIVOLI — JULY 2007
Swing it, orkestern!
6 af 6 stjerner 
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7/17/2007
LONDON, BARBICAN — MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL, JULY 2007
Together with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Barbican Centre, and Casa da Música-Porto, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra recently co-commissioned a new violin concerto by Finnish composer, Magnus Lindberg. Giving the work its UK premiere in London at the Mostly Mozart Festival in July 2007, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra were joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili for aper formance which received rave reviews. Following are highlights of some of these reviews.
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3/17/2007
EUROPEAN TOUR — MARCH 2007
Following are highlights of reviews from the Swedish Chamber Orchestra´s March 2007 tour. Copies of reviews in the original language are available on request:
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