The sense of discovery charges up the entire performance making for edge-of-seat-listening that keeps the impact fresh. If you think Abbado, Haitink and Bernstein are enough for a Mahler Five in your library, do add this one.…

The name Philipp von Steinaecker is one to remember. (…) The polyphony of lament, rage, and despair—so vividly present, for example, in the first movement—here crashes over the listener in stirring complexity. Even the slightest gradations of…

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…

Philipp von Steinaecker, a conductor of clear gesture and deep musical thought, impressed with an agile, highly animated approach which—stripped of all artifice—revealed a background closely linked to historically informed performance practice. This translated into readings attentive…