Ivor Bolton

Ivor Bolton and his players have clearly taken the composer’s aggravation seriously and the result is pure delight. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019 More…

With the Basel Symphony on fine form, Bolton teases out Faure’s textural and emotional subtleties with great care, scrupulously judging both the delicate wit of Shylock and the altogether loftier... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

There's plenty to intrigue and delight in these four symphonies...Bolton brings out both the opera buffa sparkle and the dramatic surprises of the Allegros, gives a lively kick to the rhythms... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

Though you might wonder at the idea of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra playing Bruckner, they have been doing so for many years.
Joseph Schröcksnadel's history of the orchestra reproduces a... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Vogler – placed ideally against the orchestra, his sound growing naturally out of the tuttis – shows few signs of awkwardness in Schumann’s challenging writing…Ivor Bolton makes the most of... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

It’s a measure of the quality of these recordings that I immediately thought to compare them with Beecham, Jochum and Davis, such is the joie de vivre that they communicate. Though the Mozarteum... — MusicWeb International, 31st May 2013 More…