Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 / Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture (Live)

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Winner of the 2017 Edison Klassiek Award in the Orchestra Category

Andris Nelsons’ latest Deutsche Grammophon release, featuring Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 and Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, was recorded live in concert and is the first installment in a multi-album Bruckner series on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

“Andris Nelsons’ reading of Bruckner’s Third Symphony is truly compelling. He develops a genuine feeling for the music, caring for details, nuances and a very good balance. The four movements flow evenly so that the symphony is well held together. But above all, we notice over the entire work a feeling of the conductor’s admiration for this music, a feeling that inspired him and that he generously shares with the orchestra and the listener.”

-Pizzicato (Luxembourg)

“Andris Nelsons conducted with keen focus and vigor, eliciting tonal beauty, technical precision and obvious engagement from the orchestra.”

–The Wall Street Journal

“…Nelsons has a sense of architecture… His changes of pace felt idiomatic, always part of the larger picture, and he gets the obsessive, uncertain and unresolved nature of Bruckner’s writing.”

–The Guardian