d’Indy Orchestral Works

For me, the palm goes to the delightful and generally ignored Saugefleurie, where duty bows before inspiration. Throughout, the playing is warm and unfussy. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…a vital, vividly scored and eventually stirring piece. When d'Indy escapes from his determination to build most of it from the same two themes, he comes up with moments of breathtaking poetry... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rumon Gamba...draws deeply sympathetic playing from his orchestra, leaving us to wish that d'Indy had always composed thus. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Rumon Gamba plays the [Symphonie Italienne] straight, without fuss, and the results are excellent. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gamba's conducting evinces the care and thought characteristic of the retrospective as a whole. There's an admirable awareness of the crafted sensuousness of d'Indy's textures, the slightly... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Most record lovers will be drawn primarily by Jour d'été à la montagne. Rumon Gamba, eliciting controlled and delicate playing from the orchestra in the other two works, does so again here. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…