Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

December 2008

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“Jonathan Nott… moves swiftly but unhurriedly through the woodland terrors of the first movement development, keeps the scrapings of Brother Death shrill and headlong in the Scherzo, and makes sure all dynamics keep their place in the long lines of the great slow movement, aided by the superlative Bamberg first oboe.”

December 2008

“Having recorded fine if not world-beating accounts of the Fifth and First Symphonies, Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra continue their Mahler cycle with a fourth that can rank with the finest….The SACD sound, though, is the best this work has yet received – setting the seal on a likely bench-mark recording.”