Browse: Orchestral, Overtures, Wagner (composer)

Goerne does misery masterfully … As Goerne’s Wotan kisses Brünnhilde to sleep, the moment is so intimate that (depending on your speakers) you might even feel a peck on the cheek. Yet this isn’t... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 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, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If I had to pick one word to describe this recording, it would be ‘ intense’...An unsentimental, unshowy and rather lovely Liebestraum No. 3 opens proceedings; a cathartic Harmonies du soir concludes... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The performance of the Sixth Symphony features Nelsons’s usual attention to detail, with a perfectly judged tempo for the opening Majestoso and plenty of energy in the allegro passages that follow.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

I like Nelsons’s approach [in No. 8], and the orchestra is magnificent...The Leipzigers have the right kind of sound, but Nelsons seems uncertain how smoothly the music should flow, so though... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…