“Pablo Heras-Casado’s account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony is an ear-opening album” by Geoff Brown, The Times.
If any recording could encourage fresh and positive thinking about the idiosyncratic Bruckner it’s Heras-Casado’s account of his Fourth Symphony with the excellent period instrument ensemble Anima Eterna Brugge. The opening horn call is magical, and brass and woodwinds regularly swap the brilliant attack of modern instruments for old-fashioned warmth. Stripped of the heavy machinery usually supplied by a modern symphony orchestra and an overbearing conductor, Bruckner stands before us as less granitic, more mellifluously lyrical. An ear-opening release.