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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
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Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Lioba Braun (contralto)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & Bamberg Symphony Choir, Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott [reaches] new peaks in his Bamberg cycle...What uplift, rather than crushing weight, in those opening lower-string flourishes...The consoling vision just gets more magical on each... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?…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. — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Lioba Braun (contralto), Mihoko Fujimura (contralto), Janina Baechle, Michaela Kaune, Marisol Montalvo, Manuela Uhl, Albert Dohmen, Michael Nagy & Stefan Vinke
Bamberger Symphoniker, Bamberg Symphony Choir, Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor & Windsbacher...
…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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Janina Baechle, Lioba Braun, Michaela Kaune, Marisol Montalvo, Manuela Uhl, Albert Dohmen, Michael Nagy & Stefan Vinke
Chor der Bamberger Symphoniker, Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor, Windsbacher Knabenchor & Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott
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... — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?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... — More…