Riccardo Chailly Mahler Symphony cycle

the Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

How good to see Riccardo Chailly so radiant at the end of this great event. It's an exhilaration he earns through sheer work as well as injecting the adrenalin at most of the right moments...Chailly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

abundant virtues...a sense of naturally flowing tempi, an ear for inner parts within the whole, a vitality that captures the pristine glow of this most innocent of all Mahler symphonies. Chailly... — Financial Times, 4th May 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

There is nothing inappropriate or anticlimactic about this performance…You can see the right emotions featured in Chailly’s face. His eyes are shut, Karajan-like, at the creation of the world,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Clarity with power, clear balances and ferocity combined: Riccardo Chailly's latest Mahler Five surely has the best of all possible worlds for this comprehensive darkness-to-light epic. It's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Chailly takes us on a journey from darkness to light...He's a pleasure to watch, being neither over-demonstrative nor affectedly matter-of-fact. He looks like what he's conducting and one sense... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014More…

The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

abundant virtues...a sense of naturally flowing tempi, an ear for inner parts within the whole, a vitality that captures the pristine glow of this most innocent of all Mahler symphonies. Chailly... — Financial Times, 4th May 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…