DVD Video, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here, in performances of rare empathy and recreative skill, both [early] works emerge as harbingers of miracles yet to come. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…

Thielemann keeps a firm grip on dynamic levels – ppp really means ppp – and the hushed playing is exquisitely rendered. The depth of sonority of horns, trombones and pizzicato double basses... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Enthusiasts of Thielemann’s work will be impressed by the result – though there’s plenty here to please anyone who loves this music…the Ritter Pásmán csárdás has the verve and headlong momentum... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

You can immediately hear the classiness of the orchestral support...Thielemann's journey up the mountain is more a question of inner feeling than outward tone-painting...But the summit sequence... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Thielemann’s symphonic credentials pay dividends in the grander pieces, his overview lending a structural breadth to such familiar fare as The Blue Danube, which took on the trappings of a symphonic... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…