Browse: Frank Strobel (conductor)

Kapustin’s joyful, American swing was as defiant an expression of individuality as Schnittke’s coruscating late Romanticism...Leaving aside moments of cliché, the intimate interplay between rhythm... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

what we have here are scores painstakingly gathered together and recorded in excellent audio rather than original soundtracks...With an inevitable smoothing out of those rough edges that can... — MusicWeb International, 19th May 2015 More…

Sonically speaking this Berlin-made production is certainly up to the job and its conductor has a whole series of comparable restorations under his belt…Prudenskaya, fresh from her Royal Opera... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

Strobel has a real sense of the music's grand passions, and his Ludwigshafen-based orchestra is impressive, too, with plenty of glamour in the woodwind and appropriately lush strings. You'll... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

big, bold, powerful sound — American Record Guide More…

The nearly 150-minute score is a melting pot of German music in the 1920s, with influences ranging from Wagner’s leitmotif technique to “popular” works...this is an astounding score, sumptuously... — Sunday Times, 27th May 2018 More…