Browse: Hamburg Philharmonic (orchestra)

Here is a Bruckner conductor who understands where the music is going and the contextual significance of detail. Young seems at one with Bruckner's sound world, how the music breathes and how... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

Almost from the Second Symphony's amply swaying, golden-toned opening bars, it is clear that this is going to be a full-blooded traditionalist reading, unalloyed by 'period performance' scruples.... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The most apposite word I can apply to Simone Young's approach to Bruckner is 'fluidity'…she allows the lyrical melodies of the first two movements to unfold naturally and with a good sense of... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Das Rheingold is a work of intensely dramatic exposition… This Hamburg performance… goes all for the drama, to the point where the characters sometimes almost stop singing and begin to shout.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Hamburg Philharmonic, with whom Simone Young is recording all the symphonies, has a great Bruckner tradition, and thanks to the fine recording the results are often resplendent. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Young directs a well-structured and persuasive interpretation of Bruckner's final symphony, making use of the most recent critical edition available — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Young has chosen to accentuate the work's tenderness and tragedy rather than its aggressive qualities, but her interpretation is by no means slushy. Similarly, despite an intensely weighty sound,... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Simone Young is so persuasive that you may end up feeling the Bruckner was nearer the mark in 1874 that most of us had guessed. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performance gripped - and held - my attention from the outset...Ms. Young hands the enormous span of this movement very well indeed. Her tempi are well judged and she inspires the orchestra... — MusicWeb International, February 2013 More…