Hänssler

The Bruckner is the thing here. This is a truly inspired performance, keenly argued, swift and clean-limbed, yet one that's also sensitive to the characteristic Brucknerian musings in lyric... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

there is nothing seriously wrong with the performance unless you insist on the weight and, at length, sheer terror Kondrashin provides...With such distinguished German radio orchestras under... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

The performance itself has all the necessary gusto and flamboyance. The new ending does little or nothing to tone down the aggressive exuberance of the original, an American commission which... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

There's an austere, hieratic quality about the writing, and a Stravinsky-like feel to some of the harmony...though the orchestral outbursts that occasionally punctuate the sequence have a highly... — The Guardian, 28th January 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…