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Andris Nelsons

October 2023

  • BSO Music DirectorAndris Nelsons

    Shostakovich: Symphonies 2, 3, 12 and 13 album review – Nelsons ends his cycle as convincingly as it began

    Although for some of these performances revolutionary zeal is replaced by routine, the 13th stands apart

September 2023

  • simon rattle conducting the LSO at the Proms.Photo by Mark Allan

    The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Nelsons – review

    The LSO gave Simon Rattle an unforgettable send-off in Mahler’s Ninth, while the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons turned on the style with Stravinsky, Ravel and Gershwin

August 2023

  • Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall.

    Prom 52: Boston SO/ Nelsons review – weighty lyricism and ravishing reflection

    The Boston Symphony showed signature depth in a grand Prokofiev Fifth, and splendidly contrasting textures in both Strauss and an emotionally driven premiere from US composer Julia Adolphe

May 2022

  • (10 May) concert at the Barbican with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Andris Nelsons.

    The week in classical: Leipzig Gewandhaus/ Nelsons; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Manze

  • Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Orchestra as they perform Richard Strauss at the Barbican Hall

    Leipzig Gewandhaus/Nelsons review – exquisite and thrilling Strauss from a great orchestra

February 2022

  • Undeniably an individual view … conductor Andris Nelsons.

    Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1 and 5, etc review – Nelsons’ buoyant reading lets the lyricism flow

    The conductor’s latest journey through Bruckner (and Wagner) is typically extrovert, allowing the music to flow naturally

February 2021

  • The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Sir Simon Rattle perform without an audience at the Berlin Philharmonie, March, 2020.

    Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review – a sumptuous Berlin Phil moves from the glib to the sublime

    This mammoth undertaking, of all of Mahler’s symphonies with different conductors over the last decade, brings variable musical results

August 2020

  • In close confines ... Opera Harmony 05 The Den.

    House music
    House music: Andrew Clements' watching and listening highlights

    This week, Opera Harmony’s new socially distanced mini-operas, streaming from a scaled-down Salzburg, and the Proms revisits BBCSSO’s five-star Vaughan Williams

October 2018

  • Andris Nelsons conducts the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons review - power and theatricality

    Refined playing and expressive detail were crowned by an irresistible finale to Mahler’s First Symphony

September 2018

  • Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Andris Nelsons

    Prom 67: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Nelsons review - reaching for the divine

    Andris Nelsons gave shape and a gathering sense of intensity to Mahler’s colossus of a symphony

August 2018

  • War and Peace (WNO); Mark Simpson; Andris Nelsons; Olga Neuwirth

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    War, peace, and everything between: the best classical music of autumn 2018

  • Andris Nelsons Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig Photo: Marco Borggreve conductor Andris Nelsons, whose recent Bruckner-recording has been reviewed by Andrew Clements in The Guardian (title: "Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 CD review – Shows the Gewandhaus Orchestra, which Nelsons recorded the album with

    Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 4 and 11 review – brittleness and brilliance

July 2017

  • Fleet and floating … conductor Andris Nelsons.

    Bruckner: Symphony No 3 CD review – consistently superb, with buoyant strings

January 2017

  • Cuarteto Casals

    Five of the best… new classical concerts
    BBC Symphony Orchestra: this week’s best UK classical concerts

    Edward Gardner focuses on music from eastern Europe. Plus: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cuarteto Casals, Andris Nelsons and Written On Skin

December 2016

  • Boom … Alice Coote, left, and Sophie Bevan as Octavian and Sophie in Robert Carsen’s Der Rosenkavalier for Royal Opera.

    Der Rosenkavalier review – big guns and young lovers overcome stage obstacles

    Renée Fleming leads a fine cast including Alice Coote, Sophie Bevan and Matthew Rose in a production whose romantic comedy plays out against a distractingly over-the-top backdrop

February 2016

  • Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

    CBSO appoints 29-year-old Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as music director

    The Lithuanian woman who succeeds Andris Nelsons in Birmingham wins acclaim for energy and ‘rare talent’

December 2015

  • Christopher Purves as Saul in Handel’s opera, directed by Barrie Kosky at Glyndebourne.

    Best culture 2015
    Andrew Clements' top 10 classical concerts and operas of 2015

    Surreal opera vied with masterclasses of subtlety and fire from some of the world’s finest soloists to make our classical music critic’s highlights of the year
  • Andris Nelsons with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) press image supplied by Ruth Green <rgreen@cbso.co.uk>

    Best culture 2015
    The top 10 classical concerts and operas of 2015

    Andris Nelsons and Simon Rattle led masterful surveys of Beethoven and Sibelius, the Proms made it great to stay up late, and opera brought moments both comic and surreal
  • Andris Nelsons with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) press image supplied by Ruth Green <rgreen@cbso.co.uk> Photo: Marco Borggreve

    Philharmonia/Nelsons review – breathtaking Bruckner's Eighth

    Aided by eloquent playing, Andris Nelsons was alive to the composer’s uncertainty in a lithe and at times mesmerising performance

September 2015

  • Tom Service

    Tom Service on classical music
    Nelsons at Leipzig – an inspired appointment or an orchestra too far?

    Tom Service
    The news that Andris Nelsons is to head the Leipzig Gewandhaus puts the Latvian conductor, still in his 30s, in charge of two of the world’s highest-profile orchestras. Will the cross-continental collaboration bring dynamism or dilution?
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