Browse: SWR Music (label)

Prominent woodwinds give this Seventh Symphony a more t han usually peaceable atmosphere, although brass and strings raise the emotional temperature at all the right moments. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Extremes of tempo characterised the performances of his later years, but in 1959, these were less pronounced, even if the opening Largo of Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 is on the stately side...It’s... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is, in any event, the best stand-alone performance of the Dvořák Second Symphony so far available, especially when we consider the limpid sound SWR has delivered, the pretty textures of... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Further volumes in this series are eagerly awaited. — MusicWeb International, 2nd January 2017 More…

[2013 performance] This isn’t a slow march to nowhere. Once you adjust, you find yourself hearing Mahler’s music as Celibidache might
have conducted it. An extreme treatment matches extreme... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Inkinen and the German Radio Philharmonic’s performances of the overtures are every bit as thrill­ing as their performance of the symphony. This is a no-brainer. Urgently recommended. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

The transfers are more than satisfactory. An extremely fine collection, much to be recommended, and not only to the aficionado. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2023 More…