Blu-Ray Video, Andris Nelsons (conductor)

The three soloists are not, perhaps, quite as eminently as the originals, but they're all excellent...[Nelsons's] un-English reading, more tautly controlled and vigorous than Britten's own,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a refreshingly unmannered Sixth of fierce concentration under Kirill Petrenko. I love its goal-directed quality, not only within Mahler’s autobiographical narrative but a longer story of his... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2021 More…

If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, 22nd July 2013 More…

What a spine-tingling DVD this is...Nelsons is his own man; this was no stand-in performance, and the level of concentrated artistry here is phenomenal...the entire performance testifies to... — The Telegraph, 10th May 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Zimmerman] The idiom is bluesy and jazzy, with an electric organ warbling in the background alongside a piano and reduced jazz-band forces. The star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is no square... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…