Browse: Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

It's a strong Fourth, worthy of comparison with the best, but the performance of The Wood Nymph is simply the best to appear so far. Symphonic drive and story-telling are balanced magnificently... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This latest recording of Sibelius’s Third gets off to a vital start, with marvellously gutsy playing from the Gothenburg strings...Yet the most exciting performance is of the Kalevala-based tone-poem... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is special indeed, and given such spectacular engineering (by Tom Stokes under producer Andrew Cornall), anyone wanting a Second in state-of-the-art sound should be happy with it…The Philharmonia... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is an Alpine Symphony where the thrills are just that much more thrilling, the sublime moments more sublime, the lyrical line more lyrical. I’d place this Alpine Symphony beside the Karajan,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

Others might have chosen more impressive repertoire for their debut, and maybe things were in the pipeline that had to be shelved during the pandemic, but this shows his command of the orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Skride sizzles in this gathering of 20th – century US works. Beyond the Bernstein, Rózsa’s red-hot concerto adds fuel to the fire. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Philharmonia was clearly on its collective toes for this young Finnish conductor – now its principal conductor designate – in this live recording made in February last year. The mildly resonant... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…