Browse: RCO Live (label)

Gatti’s reading is poised and energetic, lucid and detailed. Its unconventional emphasis on scene-painting over sweeping gesture yields some fascinating results in the opening movements…the Royal... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Jansons’s performances of the Symphonies Nos 6 and 7 take the music out of the imposing gloom of the cathedral and into the bright, fresh air. Everything feels light and fluid, like a graceful... — Financial Times, 10th April 2015 More…

a fine and worthwhile performance...It is what could be described as a 'choral society' Requiem: the approach is by and large traditional, the edition used the standard Sussmayr. The cast of... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

Unsurprisingly, a lot of the music – especially in its early stages – is zestfully raucous and grotesque…The performance has power and conviction – you would think this was an established concert... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

as a shop window for a very special orchestra, this own-label live recording couldn’t be much better. — Classic FM Magazine More…

…Harnoncourt…music, but he's in unusually fluent form here, with airy orchestral and choral textures… Christian Gerhaher is an intellectual, strong-toned Faust, relishing Goethe's robust language… — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A detailed account. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…