“Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him.” --Gramophone Magazine, September 2014
“Abbado establishes tension right at the outset of the first movement, the horns calling across wide vistas...There is only one word to describe properly the performance of the great Adagio: magnificent. This is emphatically not an elegiac performance; rather, it’s noble in character. Abbado shapes Bruckner’s long paragraphs with complete understanding and always there’s a wonderful sense of line. The playing is simply peerless.” --MusicWeb International, 30th July 2014
“Abbado establishes tension right at the outset of the first movement, the horns calling across wide vistas...There is only one word to describe properly the performance of the great Adagio: magnificent. This is emphatically not an elegiac performance; rather, it’s noble in character. Abbado shapes Bruckner’s long paragraphs with complete understanding and always there’s a wonderful sense of line. The playing is simply peerless.” --MusicWeb International, 30th July 2014
BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - September 2014
“There is an intensity in the string-playing...and a sense of spiritual striving that culminates in one of the most awe-inspiring accounts of the great concluding adagio I have heard. This is a poignant memory of a magisterial interpreter: a Bruckner Ninth for the ages.” --Sunday Times, 20th July 2014
“There was a transparency to [Abbado's Lucerne Bruckner recordings], which is beautifully captured again on this disc...in this final musical testament, time seems infinitely elastic, and everything has all the space it needs.” --The Guardian, 24th July 2014 *****
“The spiritual intensity of [the slow] movement is quite special. Who needs Bruckner’s uncompleted finale after this?...Abbado’s forces never seem heavy. Slenderer passages have the intimacy of chamber music, the lines of melody delicately coloured and intertwined, deliciously played. Clearly recorded, too.” --The Times, 25th July 2014 ****
Disc of the month - September 2014
“There is an intensity in the string-playing...and a sense of spiritual striving that culminates in one of the most awe-inspiring accounts of the great concluding adagio I have heard. This is a poignant memory of a magisterial interpreter: a Bruckner Ninth for the ages.” --Sunday Times, 20th July 2014
“There was a transparency to [Abbado's Lucerne Bruckner recordings], which is beautifully captured again on this disc...in this final musical testament, time seems infinitely elastic, and everything has all the space it needs.” --The Guardian, 24th July 2014 *****
“The spiritual intensity of [the slow] movement is quite special. Who needs Bruckner’s uncompleted finale after this?...Abbado’s forces never seem heavy. Slenderer passages have the intimacy of chamber music, the lines of melody delicately coloured and intertwined, deliciously played. Clearly recorded, too.” --The Times, 25th July 2014 ****
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