Browse: CD, Bruckner (composer)

Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

Rattle assuredly paces the music's long paragraphs and musters a sense of the monumental...[His] interpretation...encompasses the full gamut of emotions from tenderness and nostalgia to some... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, More…

Nigel Short and Tenebrae have come up with a beautifully balanced and contrasted programme…The beauty of sound and dignified expression of intensity that Tenebrae create in the opening of the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015, More…

Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, More…

What elevates these performances for me is the fact that Nelsons takes equal care over the string parts...Having said that, the brass certainly don't disappoint either: the outbursts of the slow... — James Longstaffe, Presto Classical, 20th April 2018 More…

Like Bruckner, Eugen Jochum came from a devout Catholic family and began his musical life as a church organist. He would have known the Mass texts more or less inside out, which explains why... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

It is a fairly leisurely account, encouraging us to listen to what is happening at the moment rather than what is going to emerge from or follow it. That is fine until we reach the last movement,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, More…

this performance from last year with the London Symphony Orchestra on stupendous form seems to mark a pitch of understanding and communication which it wouldn't be possible to surpass. There... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014 More…