Pentatone

Well known for their witty, well crafted arrangements, the Calefax Quintet are on top form here in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Barber’s jaunty Excursions. Azmeh and Hekkema’s Airports for... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Tesori’s score] moves from lush warmth to splintered dissonance in a heartbeat, straddling art and vernacular styles with subtlety and verve…The cast’s performances are both moving and cogent... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Fanfare & Memorial (1979) is a turbulent orchestral piece, enclosing an undeclared harp concerto. Interludium A (1982), for piano, rivals Ravel’s Le Gibet in stressing a single note. — Sunday Times, 11th November 2018 More…

…the performance of the Water Goblin is rewarding. Clearly, Kreizberg has a way with Dvorák, but he seems to have lost it in the Sixth. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Haimovitz and O'Riley are intelligent and sympathetic of these sonatas, and also of the three shorter sets of variations. — International Record Review, March 2015 More…

The best music, in the Entr'actes, comes from elsewhere - namely a much more distinguished stage project, The Snow Maiden, the alla tedesca of the Third Symphony and the rather lovely Elegy... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Out of repertory that has been celebrated, picked over and just about played to death over the course of almost a century and a half, they create magic…of course, this could only be achieved... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…