Harmnia Mundi release

Sep 10, 2013

“Uncork the fizz,” raves the Financial Times, “this is Schubert as never heard in modern times.” Pablo Heras-Casado’s debut album on the harmonia mundi label – a recording of Schubert’s Third and Fourth Symphonies with the Freiburger Barockorchester – has been greeted with critical acclaim. The album is available internationally beginning this week – order it here on iTunes and here on Amazon.

“The symphonies were crying out for a period makeover, but who could have expected the result – taut, texturally transparent, rhythmically alert – to sound so witty and exciting? No one listening to this recording will ever want to return to traditional symphonic Schubert” (Financial Times).

In the recording, Pablo demonstrates an “approach [that] is at once vigorous, dynamic and graceful without a hint of sentimentality,” writes Classic FM, which, along with New York’s classical radio station WQXR, singled out the disc as an Album of the Week. “Sprightly, energetic and full of energy… the Freiburger [Barockorchester] rocks under Heras-Casado,” enthuses WDR 3, with Süddeutsche Zeitung also noting the Spanish maestro’s distinct touch: “Pablo Heras-Casado goes his own ways … applying the color, plasticity and fervidness of the Freiburger Barockorchester.”