Bruckner's

There's no getting around that much of Bruckner's symphonies consist in large part of big, static chunks of music.

Manual transmission Matthew Guerrieri 2009

The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.

Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Clocking in at just under an hour, Bruckner's Sixth Symphony is a sprawling evocation of religious yearnings and strivings, more revelatory than poetic and certainly a monument to patience.

Music review: Juanjo Mena conducts BSO at Strathmore, with pianist Yuja Wang Post 2011

There's no getting around that much of Bruckner's symphonies consist in large part of big, static chunks of music.

Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Burnished brass and a nuanced understanding of the massive architecture of Bruckner's symphonies provided the underpinnings of Lorin Maazel's Bruckner cycle in Munich from January through March 1999.

CD review: Lorin Maazel's Bruckner box set 2011

Yet his aim, always, is to make Bruckner's contrapuntal lines audible.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Xerxes; La bohème – review 2011

At the same time, the vast, sonorous, spare orchestral expanses of Sibelius's symphonies seem like a bridge between Bruckner's monolithic structures and the towering sonic landscapes of Vaughan Williams.

Nordic Exposure at Bard Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In a concert which also included Bruckner's Fourth "The Romantic", unfortunately marred by a heckler complaining it was slow when in fact up to that point it had been pretty brisk, the LPO and their dynamic conductor Osmo Vänskä struck up a sparky partnership.

Eugene Onegin; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Janine Jansen/Vänskä – review 2011

All were given masterclasses by great European ensembles, first by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, and most of all by Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, with two visionary, transcendent performances of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony.

The best classical music of 2011: Tom Service's choice 2011

It is, I think, one of the things that people who don't like Bruckner's music don't like about it.

Manual transmission Matthew Guerrieri 2009