
Beautifully played, warmly recorded, this performance wallows in the kind of torpor you feel on a hot summer day: the more it tries to move,
And so the Andris Nelsons Bruckner Symphony cycle limps to
Up to this point, Nelsons’ Boston Shostakovich cycle has been very good to excellent, but these performances of Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 and 15 are,
This next installment in Andris Nelson’s ongoing project to record
Not many conductors get the opportunity to record the “Leningrad” Symphony twice. Bernstein did it, and now so does Andris Nelsons. He has a genuine
Unlike his Bruckner, Andris Nelsons seems to have real feeling for Shostakovich, and in the Boston Symphony he has far and away the best orchestra
Let’s give credit where credit is due: this is vastly better than Nelsons’ dreadful Bruckner Third, but hearing this account of the Fourth you might
This is an atrocious performance of Bruckner’s Third Symphony: sluggish,
With this release, Andris Nelsons becomes only the second musical
Since Andris Nelsons will be remaking this symphony as part of the new Boston Shostakovich cycle, it makes sense to take a look at this