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a regular box of surprises, some of them quite startling...The principal virtue of the performance is in its agility, leanness and considerable subtlety of expression, the way it challenges the... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 More…

Venzago demolishes - and clearly enjoys doing so - the idea that all conductors need to do is think big, think solemn, pour on lashings of string vibrato and, bingo, an authentic Bruckner is... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

Venzago's vision of a leaner, trimmer Bruckner - with big-boned solemnity discreetly airbrushed away - aims to repoint the composer by balancing his Wagner fixation agtainst his symphonic roots... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2014 More…

Venzago's performance feels organic in that tempo choices and phrasings are fluent and spontaneous. There is a convincing balance between action and repose...[in the slow movement] Venzago points... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

This installment of a projected complete Bruckner cycle for CPO is interesting in that it displays a markedly individual approach to the music, one where luminous textures and extreme tempo fluctuations... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

Turn straight to the Scherzo of Mario Venzago's Fifth for a Landler of considerable charm and subtle clumsiness...they pull on the country clogs of Mahler's childhood Landler-memories, not the... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…

One of Venzago's virtues as a Bruckner interpreter is in the way he takes on aspects of period performance practice, moderating the use of vibrato rather than taking it a doctrinaire line against... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 More…

The sound is thrillingly captured, especially in the conductor’s brilliant readings of the last two great symphonies. The accompanying bonus DVD features a film documentary, Venzago’s Bruckner.... — New Classics, December 2016 More…