Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestra of the Year
Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestra of the Year
Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with...
About
Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is the designated Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, with the appointment commencing in the 2017/18 season. With these positions, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, two times Grammy Award winning Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.
Since 2016 Andris Nelsons is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist. Now, with his new orchestra, Nelsons is embarking on a long-term journey exploring the sound world of Anton Bruckner’s iconic symphonies.
This new and ambitious long-term recording project is consciously combined with the production of DG’s first complete Shostakovich cycle that Andris Nelsons is recording with Boston Symphony and that has already been awarded with two consecutive Grammy Awards plus various other awards.
Contents and tracklist
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2016-06-03
- Recording Venue: Gewandhaus, Leipzig
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2016-06-03
- Recording Venue: Gewandhaus, Leipzig
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Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester perform Bruckner
20th Apr 2018
James enjoys magnificently sonorous performances of two symphonies by Anton Bruckner.
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Andris Nelsons conducts Bruckner's Third Symphony
5th May 2017
James listens to Andris Nelsons' first recording with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - a stirring account of Bruckner's Third Symphony.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week5th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards2018Winner - Orchestra of the Year
August 2017
Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with a characteristic sound: warm strings and incisive woodwind, rounded and, when necessary, powerful brass.
July 2017
As a Bruckner interpreter, Nelsons is direct, clear-sighted and spacious, the performance guided with a sure hand and a sense of inevitability but also meticulous in observing tempo and dynamic markings...The warmth and sonority of the playing at the start is enthralling and the performance unfolds with character and excitement.
5th May 2017
For me, where this recording reveals itself to be a truly top-drawer Bruckner performance is in the quieter moments...while the brassy climaxes do ring out most satisfactorily, Nelsons brings such shape and poise to his sculpting of these long movements that I’m sure this performance will win over some new converts to the cause of Bruckner!
28th May 2017
Nelsons offers a more youthful, impetuous Bruckner than his older colleague [Herbert Blomstedt], but one in which the strings shimmer and glow, while wind and brass combine to unfold the majesty of Bruckner’s “Wagnerian” conception in his first masterpiece. The playing is a marvel.
20th July 2017
There’s consistently superb playing from all sections of the orchestra, but it’s the transparency of the strings that gives the textures such buoyancy; nothing is too emphatic or insistent. There’s room on the disc for Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture too, another chance for the ensemble to show how superb it is.
