Browse: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)

The night opening is evocatively veiled, the mountain theme especially, and moves organically to its spiritual sunrise. Throughout there's a natural sense of pace between vigorous clambering... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

His stunning virtuosity and the sensitive interaction with the conductor and orchestra really does the talking. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 More…

An enjoyable tour of the Brazilian’s concertos and chamber works including the lesser-known, winsome Harmonica Concerto. The guitar Concerto gets a fine advocate in soloist Manuel Barrueco. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

How many Chôros are there? Fourteen numbered examples (with two claimed as “lost”), two Chôrosbis, a Wind Quintet en forme de Chôros and a con- cluding (!) choral-and-orchestral “Introduction... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The quality is first-rate, a tribute to the musical and expressive gains Minczuk can achieve when an orchestra is with him...The real find of the disc for me was Edino Krieger's Passacalha para... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 More…

Tortelier is...supple and caressing, emphasising the score's Gallic progeniture. Going from the lurid sex and violence of Salome to Schmitt's setting of Psalm 47 should be a major wrench stylistically,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

John Neschling has no equal in this repertoire… in the same piece, Villa-Lobos slides from elevated invention towards banality - Neschling makes it hang together, and the kinetic vivacity of... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2009 More…