RCO Live

as good as live performance on CD can get — BBC Music Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These are highly accomplished performances, the players blending beautifully — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Jansons' line up of Wagnerian soloists for this live Concertgebouw Mahler spectacular is possibly the most impressive since Georg Solti's classic 1971 recording...If this still doesn't rise... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Mariss Jansons's… great lover is beefier if less nimble-footed than George Szell's (on Sony), with the woodwind repeated-note support crystal clear behind spacious strings. …Jansons's…Alpine... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the brass playing is thrilling, delivering the ample, rounded tone characteristic of the Concertgebouw. The sonority is so impressive that Gatti’s deliberate pacing is effective. This release... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

This great programmatic symphony has never sounded as serene or tragic as it does in this live performance…The playing is immaculate, the interpretation all-of-a-piece. In the core Karajan repertory,... — Financial Times More…

Denève’s spacious pacing is to the work’s advantage in many places…The tension of the final scene at the stake builds steadily, with superb French enunciation from both Dutch choruses and polished... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2019 More…

Haitink's supreme control of pacing [in the slow movement] ensures that all the pregnant silences in the music are imbued with a real sense of anxiety...Likewise Haitink's slow tempo in the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The magic of Jansons's conducting with the orchestra of which he is chief conductor could not be more compelling. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 More…