Credits:

Andris Nelsons,Anton Bruckner,Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Description:

Rush release of live recordings of Nelsons' inauguration as new Kapellmeister & the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra's 275th anniversary in March 2018! The third in the series of recordings of the complete Bruckner symphonies by the Gewandhaus Orchestra, a stronghold of German musical tradition, and the talented new Kapellmeister is the Symphony No. 7, a masterpiece that was successfully premiered for the first time and remains an enduringly popular work today! The talented conductor Nelsons is in the groove with his recording of the complete Shostakovich symphonies with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has won Grammy awards two years in a row for two works. Nelsons has also begun recording the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020, and is currently Deutsche Grammophon's most active conductor.