Mark Stone

Manze directs with scrupulous sensitivity and a shrewd ear for detail…, has an experienced and intelligent pair of vocal soloists, and secures some finely drilled and conspicuously eager results... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — The Times, 18th April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019 More…

The performances are dynamic, the juxtapositions of works illuminating in a sidelong way: this is the kind of rewarding work this ensemble’s East Anglian and London audiences have come to expect. — The Guardian, 17th November 2022 More…

Corp's war requiem is ambitious, eclectic and just skirts the memorable. Hurd's cantata on John Clare poems boasts a haunting slow movement and eloquent baritone Roderick Williams. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... — International Record Review, March 2009 More…

It's fascinating to hear Carl Nielsen's six symponies in quick succession…Storgårds's approach is thoughtful…[and] the BBC Philharmonic players respond to their principal guest conductor superbly:... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Those who share [Lorin Maazel's] apparent conviction that the only way to renew these familiar scores is to emphasise and push to extremes their every dynamic marking or tempo modification will... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…