Gramophone Awards, Bruckner (composer)

Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

The pacing of each movement is majestic.
Not too fast in the first movement; a slow, contemplative tread in the second; animated, but capable of opening out into something more leisurely in... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Rattle assuredly paces the music's long paragraphs and musters a sense of the monumental...[His] interpretation...encompasses the full gamut of emotions from tenderness and nostalgia to some... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

this performance from last year with the London Symphony Orchestra on stupendous form seems to mark a pitch of understanding and communication which it wouldn't be possible to surpass. There... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014 More…

This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — Financial Times, 2nd June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — Financial Times, 2nd June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…