„For sixteen months, Andris Nelsons has been chief conductor of the world’s oldest bourgeois concert orchestra. He treats it with caution and awe. It is an archive of knowledge, sounds and feelings. The musicians, who can tell a lot of stories about various conductors, their irascible anger, their linguistic weapons of intimidation, their strategies to establish authority, are currently enthusiastic about Nelson’s gentleness, his human warmth, but also his artistic spontaneity, his interpretational unpredictability in a good sense.“

„In the Adagio, however, the miracle of the loss of all time took place: One entered into this music as into an eternal security. The fact that in the end it had to stop was as deeply sad as it was comfortingly relieving.“

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung