Classics Today 10/10; ECHO Award.
One of the most eagerly anticipated releases in the SWR faszination musik series to date! Pre-release sales have topped 8000 copies worldwide, with more requests coming in daily. Why all the excitement? Well, from his days as a vocal coach with the Staedtische Oper, under the tutelage of such giants as Klemperer, Kleiber and Furtwaengler, to his co-directorship of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra with Yevgeny Mravinsky, to his work with the venerable Dresden Staakapelle and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Sanderling has earned can boast an extraordinary Bruckner pedigree. Not surprisingly, this live concert recording captures all the electricity of a master musician and an all-star orchestra in peak performance. This is a recording no Brucknerian will want to be without!