Browse: Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Liebeck responds [to Schoenberg’s technical demands] with astonishing command, allowing the music’s expression to speak with a real degree of freedom, even fantasy, so that the solo part can... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This recording makes a glorious 45 minutes, with immaculately seductive playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and perfect segues from piece to piece – it all slips deliciously down. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The compulsive fluency of Stanford’s music is part of its charm…Frith’s advocacy is state-of-the-art (does any pianist around draw a lovelier sound from the keyboard, or phrase more naturally?),... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

although Siem has all the necessary technical fireworks to get round the challenging passagework of the Wieniawski and the faster sections of the Bull, the steady stream of scales and arpeggios... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Gourlay’s occasional tendency to linger over transitions does not preclude the sharp characterisation of detail nor the kinetic build-up of climaxes…Sound and continuity are in the safe hands... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…