“Beyond the sheer aural bliss, there were endless subtleties to savour, some to do with purely musical things like the shaping of a phrase, others with the amazingly vivid pictorial and storytelling aspects of Strauss’s music. Thanks to Nelsons‘ exuberantly dramatic shaping of the narrative in Macbeth, it was easy to follow its twists and turns, right down to the evil hoarseness in Lady Macbeth’s voice as she counters her husband’s vacillation.“