Michael Sanderling

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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022 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…

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…

Idiomatic accounts of works from four countries by the cream of Germany's 11-19-year-old string players. Rich sound and Sanderling's freshly incisive conducting enhance the attractions. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Müller-Schott, with his thoughtfully varied articulations and tone colours, digs...deeply into the concerto's expressive detail, in particular bringing out the sense of yearning that's such... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…