Browse: Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)

Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto...embraces the gamut of colours and technical jinks called for with what sounds like genuine relish. This is superb cello-playing... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Time and time again [Lisiecki's] bouyant rhythms, spontaneity and crisp articulation married to a touching introspection leaves some distinguished competition trailing — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

Vinnitskaya’s playing is an absolute delight for its natural, songful, expressive phrasing and a cool unpretentious temperament rather akin with the composer’s own recorded approach. Always intelligent,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Urbánski’s recording with the newly renamed NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra [is] packed with incident. There is great ferocity to the timpani and brass volleys in an urgent first movement…punchy... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

This is a real, breathing performance excitingly caught on the wing and entirely devoid of flashy thrills and spills - I warm to its keen sincerity, unvarnished honesty and total lack of mannerism.... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

There’s not the red-raw playing of corrosive brass of Kirill Kondrashin’s Moscow Philharmonic (on Melodiya’s indispensable set) but the Hamburgers still generate plenty of excitement…Urbanski’s... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…

[there is an] imaginative flair and subtlety of touch about Krzysztof Urbánski’s conception [of the Concerto for Orchestra]…[the Fourth Symphony] receives such lucid and dedicated advocacy that... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…