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

The Guardian

The sense of noble self-assurance, free from arrogance or bombast, that he brought to the Heldenleben recapitulation was thrilling and startlingly novel.“

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