3/27/2011
THE ARTSDESK PICKS OUT BRUCKNER FOR ITS MONTHLY CD ROUNDUP
"Thomas Dausgaard’s direction suggests he’s steering a lightweight racing bike rather than manoeuvring an oil tanker."
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3/26/2011
5 STARS FOR BRUCKNER FROM THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
"This account is excellent – perfectly paced and balanced – and the smallish orchestra is all to the good in making Bruckner’s stark originality clear."
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3/26/2011
FULL-POINTS FOR BRUCKNER FROM INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
"Dausgaard can reasonably claim to have captured the best of all worlds ... his is arguably a first choice for those new to the work."
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3/21/2011
INSPIRED MINDS
Thomas Dausgaard in interview with Deutsche Welle Radio on tour in Germany
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3/9/2011
"NORTHERN COOLNESS? NOT ALL ALL"
Highlighs of reviews from the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's German tour with Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/7/2011
"DAUSSGÅRD: A CONDUCTOR WHO RADIATES ENERGY"
Die Neue Presse reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Wuppertal, Germany,with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/7/2011
"A FANTASTIC JOB"
The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Hannover, Germany, with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/5/2011
"SENSITIVITY AND STANDING OVATIONS"
The Westdeutsche Zeitung reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Wuppertal, Germany, with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/5/2011
"WITH A TRANSPARENT SOUND ... AND FIERY CONDUCTING"
Der Tagesspiegel  reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Berlin, Germany, with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/4/2011
"CHILD PRODIGY WITH SOUL"

The KölnIsche Rundschau reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Cologne, Germany, with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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3/4/2011
"A GENIUS, WHO DOESN'T APPEAR AS ONE"
The Kölner Stadt Anzeiger reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's concert in Cologne, Germany, with solo pianist Kit Armstrong
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1/23/2011
"BRUCKNER PLAYED BY A CHAMBER ORCHESTRA?"
The Guardian and Observer take opposite stances on the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's new recording:
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1/20/2011
THOMAS DAUSGAARD AND THE SCO TOUR GERMANY IN EARLY MARCH 2011 WITH CONCERTS IN...
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra celebrates 15 years of success with a tour of Germany this March with Music Director, Thomas Dausgaard, which includes the ensemble’s Berlin Philharmonie debut on 4 March.
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1/16/2011
4 STAR REVIEW FROM THE LONDON TIMES FOR BRUCKNER
"The Swedish Chamber Orchestra delivers a refreshing performance of Bruckner on this album"
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1/11/2011
TORONTO STAR GIVES BRUCKNER CD A FOUR STAR REVIEW
"These days, every conductor with aspirations to greatness wants to record Bruckner's symphonies, but few have done it with Dausgaard's level of insight and purpose."
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1/5/2011
RESMUSICA REVIEWS BRUCKNER 2
"The indefatigable Thomas Dausgaard pursues his "Opening Doors" exploration with the music of Bruckner." Read Resmusica's review in French below.
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11/24/2010
BRUCKNER 2 FEATURED AS CD OF THE DAY ON AUSTRIA'S RADIO STEPHANSDOM
"A really fresh and very fine new recording of Bruckner's second Symphony. It will be exciting to see how the "Opening Doors" series proceeds!"
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11/15/2010
NEW RELEASE OF BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO. 2
BIS has just released the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s latest recording with Thomas Dausgaard – Bruckner Symphony No. 2 – and as the first review comes in its clear that this is going to be a controversial recording amongst Bruckner dedicatees.  
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9/15/2010
SPAIN'S DIVERDI MAGAZINE PORTRAITS THOMAS DAUSGAARD AND THE ORCHESTRA
A three page feature and review of the latest Schubert CD with the final remarks: "The sound is sensational"
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9/2/2010
NORWEGIAN RADIO BROADCASTS OSLO CONCERT
On Monday 6th September at 19.30 Norwegian Radio will broadcast the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's Oslo concert which received critical acclaim. The broadcast will be repeated on Friday 10th September at 10.00 am and on Saturday 11th September at 22.00
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9/1/2010
WHO CAN DOES! A FRESH BREEZE FROM THE NORTH
The Münchner Abendzeitung reviews the Salzburg concert and comments "their acclaimed recordings of Schumann and Beethoven have made these three dozen musicians from Sweden into a top tip. They play on modern instruments, are guided in clarity and rhetorical momentum but also achieve authenticity in their sound. In concert such miracles are sometimes a disappointment. Not so with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival"

Click here to read the full review in German

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8/30/2010
DIE PRESSE REVIEWS SALZBURG FESTIVAL CONCERT
Austria's leading paper reviews Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's debut at the Salzburg Festival and concludes " A wonderful concert as proof that the most amazing, most thrilling performances often occur away from the celebrity hype"
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8/30/2010
THE SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN REVIEWS SALZBURG FESTIVAL CONCERT
The local Salzburg paper describes Nina Stemme's Berlioz performance as "sensitive, shimmering and transparent" and enjoys the "clarity and lucid sound" of the orchestra performing Schumann's Zwickau Symphony.
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8/29/2010
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY REVIEWS LONDON PROM
"The Swedish Chamber Orchestra's programme of Berlioz, Schumann and Schnelzer made for an evening of clever contrasts"
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8/27/2010
SCHUMANN TAKES LONDON PROMS BY STORM
"The transparent, monumental, rhythmically obsessive Second Symphony gripped me in this lean, intelligent account in every bar" So wrote the Sunday Times of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's performance of Schumann at the Proms last week. The Guardian exclaimed the performance to be "Excellent", The Independent on Sunday as "Mercurial", The Evening Standard as "exhilerating" and  www.artsdesk.com as "wonderfully stimulating."   By bringing Schumann to the London Proms, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra showed their affinity with Schumann.
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8/27/2010
WHAT A VOICE!
Article from Aftenposten 24 august 2010.
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8/26/2010
THOMAS DAUSGAARD IM PROFIL
The Salzburger Nachrichten profiles Thomas Dausgaard in advance of Salzburg International Festival debut
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8/25/2010
SVENSK SUPERSOPRANO I OSLO
NRK Radio features Nina Stemme in advance of the Oslo concert
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8/24/2010
PROMS 2010: CAN THE SPIRIT OF HAYDN SURVIVE IN A STATESIDE SUBURB?
The Evening Standard reviews the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in London
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8/24/2010
LONDON'S DAILY TELEGRAPH GIVES 4 STAR REVIEW FOR PROM CONCERT
"The orchestra’s Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard, moulded the rhythmic profile of each phrase as if it were putty"
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8/24/2010
THE ARTS DESK REVIEWS LONDON PROM
"Dausgaard’s is a genuine chamber orchestra"
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8/24/2010
RESMUSICA.COM REVIEWS RHEINGAU MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
The French website summarises: "This wildly romantic Schumann, bursting with sap, passion and energy advances so intractably, bursting into  Beethoven paroxysms. Using a simplified classical orchestration (3 basses only!), The conductor has an interpretation which is haughty, triumphant and memorable in Symphony No. 2, which makes any other view of Schumann outdated!"
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8/23/2010
IN LAUEN NÄCHTEN GEHTÄS AUF DEN FRIEDHOF
The Frankfurter Neue Presse reviews the Swedish Chamber Orchestra at Germany's Rheingau Festival
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8/21/2010
ORKESTERN SOM LIGGER STEGET FÖRE
The Svenska Dagbladet profiles the success of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra as it celebrates its fifteenth birthday
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8/21/2010
GÄSTE AUS SCHWEDEN
The Wiesbadener Kurier reviews the Swedish Chamber Orchestra at Germany's Rhiengau Music Festival
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8/20/2010
NINA STEMME: FROM OPERA SCHOOL TO SUPER SOPRANO
The London Times interviews Nina Stemme in advance of her London Prom with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra
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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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