· Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is the designated Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, with the appointment commencing in the 2017/18 season. With these positions, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, two times Grammy Award winning Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.
· Since 2016 Andris Nelsons is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist. Now, with his new orchestra, Nelsons is embarking on a long-term journey exploring the sound world of Anton Bruckner’s iconic symphonies.
· This new and ambitious long-term recording project is consciously combined with the production of DG’s first complete Shostakovich cycle that Andris Nelsons is recording with Boston Symphony and that has already been awarded with two consecutive Grammy Awards plus various other awards.

Following up their release of Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker continue to celebrate the orchestra's 125th year with an exploration of the 19th-century Germanic greats. On this recording they take on Bruckner's mighty Fourth Symphony, an uplifting spiritual journey across a huge musical landscape which commands the listener's attention and promises to remain in memory long after the final chords have died away.

Speaking of the individuality and overwhelming power of Bruckner's music, Rattle had this to say: "It's as though one's caught up in a gigantic wave...which simply will not stop until the last note and in fact when the last note is sounded, very often the audience simply doesn't applaud because there's a feeling to it still going out into space..."

Tracklisting:

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No.4 in E-Flat Major "Romantic"
1. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
2. Andante quasi allegretto
3. Scherzo- trio
4. Finale