Jonathan Nott Complete Mahler Symphonies
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a recorded spaciousness...lets every ensemble and solo spirituality resound. That's in evidence from the first magnificent horn cry, to the infinite depth of the truly noble timpani - magnificent... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Orchestral Choice
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It's not only as compelling as this team's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, it also counts among the most bracing, revelatory Sixths on disc...The all-embracing theatricality is equal to Leonard... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Nott's is the latest in a hard-to-choose-from field. Every Bamberg soloist, from the artistic tenor horn solo right at the start, is given room to breathe...This performance may not be quite... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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…a clearly-textured but very exciting conclusion, distinguished by first-rate work from wind principals - bassoon especially - and cutting-edge trombones. …much in Nott's reading… sounds genuinely... —
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Lioba Braun (contralto)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & Bamberg Symphony Choir, Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott [reaches] new peaks in his Bamberg cycle...What uplift, rather than crushing weight, in those opening lower-string flourishes...The consoling vision just gets more magical on each... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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…this one of the best recorded accounts we've had since Kubelík and Bernstein… Nott, you feel, has got under Mahler's skin; Gergiev is merely offering an impersonation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Janina Baechle, Lioba Braun, Michaela Kaune, Marisol Montalvo, Manuela Uhl, Albert Dohmen, Michael Nagy & Stefan Vinke
Chor der Bamberger Symphoniker, Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor, Windsbacher Knabenchor & Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott
the verdict is 'decent but not world-beating', with shortcomings in his soloists pulling him up well short of the best available. There is uplift and impulse in the opening movement, with brilliant... —
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There's space, silence in the twilight zones and unerring inner clarity of the embattled textures, but also just the right amount of impetus towards the movement's three big collapses. The... —
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Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Lioba Braun (contralto), Mihoko Fujimura (contralto), Janina Baechle, Michaela Kaune, Marisol Montalvo, Manuela Uhl, Albert Dohmen, Michael Nagy & Stefan Vinke
Bamberger Symphoniker, Bamberg Symphony Choir, Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor & Windsbacher...
