Bruckner

Abbado’s last curtain call is a final disappointment [LD]

by Alan George

Somewhat puzzling, even erratic, performances, alternately captivating and disappointing, recorded in Walter’s Indian Summer [RMo]

A thoroughly invigorating, newly conceived approach to this greatest of symphonies [RMo]

Two non-canonical symphonies in carefully prepared performances [SB]

A classic performance in improved sound [MBu]

(Déjà Review) These performances repay careful listening and study [JQ]

by Alan George

Brilliant final testimony to Leif Segerstam’s recording career [JF]

(Déjà Review) A phenomenal conception [CH]

Bruckner 9 with the finale well played by the Hallé but facing fierce competition [MC]

Wonderful performances by a great conductor [PSt]

Déjà Review) This performance impresses by its inexorable growth [CH]

Possibly the worst Bruckner Seventh I have ever heard [LD]

(Déjà Review) Bruckner would surely have been pleased with the passionate commitment shown here [TB]

A stimulating and interesting musical programme, superbly performed by the Monteverdi Choir [JQ]

An uneven but promising start to a large-scale exhumation [SV]

A slow burn superbly performed and recorded performance that makes a compelling case for the four movement completion [NB]

A marvellous testament to Haitink’s longstanding work with one of his great orchestral partners [ST]

A tribute to a great and versatile conductor containing some superb and some less successful performances [RMo]

A performance of two halves: the first subject to vagaries in tempo which impede coherence, but the second triumphant [RMo]

Gerd Schaller is determined to exploit the mighty instrument’s full potential to maximum effect [RMo]

The best available transfer of a great performance of Bruckner’s Eighth [PSt]

The first two movements here of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony are mostly fine and measured – but the Scherzo and finale are erratic [RMo]