DVD Video, Staatskapelle Dresden (orchestra)

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…

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…

The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2021 More…

aside from his musical achievement [Kaufmann] has both natural presence and the ability to put over the content of the narrations in gripping but unhistrionic fashion...The music-making is absolutely... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2014 More…

A magnificent account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony…[in] the devastating last movement, with its shatteringly dissonant climax, Thielemann left me a prostrate supplicant for mercy…seeing as well... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the Staatskapelle Dresden, with its distinctively mellow sound, is ideal for Strauss, and the singers are mostly well chosen for their appointed arias...Goerke has emerged as a true dramatic... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…