Gramophone Awards, 1986

This set presents RVW in a slightly heretical way that will appeal to those whose RVW tastes have become jaded or for those who have, for whatever reason, been put off by the mainstream cycles.... — MusicWeb International, 5th March 2014 More…

Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — The Times, 17th December 2010 More…

it is very good to have Salonen's version of the Second Symphony restored to the catalogue; he captures its elusive qualities, and the LA strings sound at their most potent here in the surging... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Superb playing from the Philharmonia, treated to one of the finest recordings that even Chandos has produced. Indeed, this mid-1980s CD received one of the many Gramophone Engineering Awards... — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

Classic accounts in which the soloist and orchestra are partners, responding raptly to one another — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 More…

Almost 50 years on, Britten's own recording is still fresh. His conducting has great naturalness and the sound is amazing for 1958. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 More…