...Verbeek knows "his" Bruckner, unmistakably: an excellent performance - obviously within the given chamber musical context - and a recording that rings like a bell.

Here is top-quality, highly enjoyable chamber-scale Bruckner for people drawn, say, to the arrangements commissioned by the Viennese "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" a century ago....

Has anyone else directed Mahler's Fourth Symphony while singing the finale from the stage? Surely not ... but the present release, preserving a concert live-streamed...

...The performances, in fact the most important part of the story, may be stamped "grandiose" as far as I'm concerned (Hannigan will also look so...

In an online concert from De Doelen, broadcast Friday, Barbara Hannigan performed with two protégés, the baritone Raoul Steffani and Rolf Verbeek, who played the fabulous...