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Playing a long game: Andris Nelsons' Birmingham Bruckner

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“you could be forgiven for thinking he'd never been away”
Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 12 January 2017
Davies, Trumpet Concerto
Bruckner, Symphony no. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic", WAB 104
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
Håkan Hardenberger, Trumpet
Yamada and the CBSO’s Walton expedition at the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade
****1
François Leleux and Lisa Batiashvili play fire and ice with the CBSO
***11
Yamada and the CBSO luxuriate in line at Symphony Hall
****1
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO showcase Richard Strauss
*****
Osmo Vänskä ruins Sibelius and Shostakovich in Birmingham
*1111
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