Heavenly Pair: Bruckner and his Idol. Richard Laing enjoys a feast of sumptuous playing from Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, though the service is a little slow

Bruckner’s admiration for Wagner is well known, as is Wagner’s lukewarm opinion of Bruckner, though the older composer thought enough of his Austrian disciple to accept the dedication of his Third Symphony and to have a beer with him. Though no one could confuse the two composers, the influence of Wagner on Bruckner and the occasional similarities in terms of musical language are made particularly clear by clever pairings of works on each disc of this impressive box set.