DVD Video, Bruckner (composer)

Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here, in performances of rare empathy and recreative skill, both [early] works emerge as harbingers of miracles yet to come. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…

Their musicianship is certainly refined: check out the suave phrasing lavished upon the famously naive melody in the third movement's trio. Yet there is robust lustre too...For all that Welser-Most... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Thielemann keeps a firm grip on dynamic levels – ppp really means ppp – and the hushed playing is exquisitely rendered. The depth of sonority of horns, trombones and pizzicato double basses... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Thielemann’s symphonic credentials pay dividends in the grander pieces, his overview lending a structural breadth to such familiar fare as The Blue Danube, which took on the trappings of a symphonic... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…