Browse: DVD Video, Bruckner (composer)

Rather than invoking a sacred-Wagnerian source for this music in the manner of Barenboim or Thielemann, his broader tempos, allied to some striking rhetorical cadences and the Vienna Philharmonic’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 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…

Rattle’s performance of Messiaen’s 1963 score superbly well, and the control of rhythm and colour is exemplary. The LSO winds and percussion are on superb form and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s contribution... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 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…

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…

The work, the conductor, the orchestra are all shown in the best light. It is the kind of experience that has you sitting afterwards, for a long time, wondering at the greatness of what you have... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This compilation commemorates his later recordings, and reminds us that he was not purely an early-music specialist. — New York Times, 24th November 2016 More…