Browse: Michael Sanderling (conductor)

He delivers Bloch’s epic Schelomo with magnificent command, tracing its ark from lamentation to shrill anger back to resignation. Michael Sanderling and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra bring out... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022 More…

Leonskaja’s live performances of the Schumann and Grieg piano concertos have been cause for wonder...There are other ways of performing these works, but these interpretations are utterly consistent... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat...It’s also a performance particularly rich in colouristic detail. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

it’s with the Arutiunian that Renaudin Vary really comes out of her shell...the Armenian-inspired folksy melodies sing, and the faster sections are punchy and exciting. She’s even more at home... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Sanderling leads a spick and span Beethoven Fifth. The long streams of quavers in the first movement line up in tidy rows, like soldiers. Even when Beethoven throws the metre off-kilter…Sanderling... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

The orchestral works that frame the disc – Klangbogen and the two-movement cello concerto Gegenklang – show Hefti's music commuting between the general and the specific, from amorphous, microtonal... — The Guardian, 26th April 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…