Steinaecker plays out this high-wire act with courage and conviction, pushing it to the very edge without ever letting the thread snap….
He and the MCO do not shy away from the abyssal shadows lurking beneath the supposed idyll, and after the interval, they launch an outright attack, sweeping away Wagner’s defamatory tirades against Mendelssohn’s music. The Scottish Symphony emerges gleaming with spray—whipped up, surging, and overflowing—right to the limits of what the Kammermusiksaal [of the Philharmonie] can contain. Dramatic bliss.

Tagesspiegel 28.05.2025