Browse: Jonathan Nott Complete Mahler Symphonies (series)

a recorded spaciousness...lets every ensemble and solo spirituality resound. That's in evidence from the first magnificent horn cry, to the infinite depth of the truly noble timpani - magnificent... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, More…

It's not only as compelling as this team's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, it also counts among the most bracing, revelatory Sixths on disc...The all-embracing theatricality is equal to Leonard... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, More…

…this one of the best recorded accounts we've had since Kubelík and Bernstein… Nott, you feel, has got under Mahler's skin; Gergiev is merely offering an impersonation. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 More…

Nott's is the latest in a hard-to-choose-from field. Every Bamberg soloist, from the artistic tenor horn solo right at the start, is given room to breathe...This performance may not be quite... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, More…

…a clearly-textured but very exciting conclusion, distinguished by first-rate work from wind principals - bassoon especially - and cutting-edge trombones. …much in Nott's reading… sounds genuinely... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, More…

There's space, silence in the twilight zones and unerring inner clarity of the embattled textures, but also just the right amount of impetus towards the movement's three big collapses. The great... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, More…

the verdict is 'decent but not world-beating', with shortcomings in his soloists pulling him up well short of the best available. There is uplift and impulse in the opening movement, with brilliant... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…

Jonathan Nott… moves swiftly but unhurriedly through the woodland terrors of the first movement development, keeps the scrapings of Brother Death shrill and headlong in the Scherzo, and makes... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, More…