Browse: Seattle Symphony Media (label)

Its sound a model of focus and lucidity, with informative notes from Paul Schiavo, this latest version can be confidently recommended for admirers and newcomers alike...As to soloists, Steven... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

In Poèmes pour mi, Jane Archibald’s soprano is full of rapture but never indulgent. The effect of ethereal boys’ voices, rather than women’s voices indicated by the score, is otherworldly. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brilliantly orchestrated, this is as much a concerto for members of the Seattle Symphony orchestra as much as for the soloist...There is much that is excellent about Morlot and the Seattle Symphony's... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ludovic Morlot is clearly a master of the material and of his excellent Seattle Symphony forces. He delivers convincing accounts of the brooding, questioning Prelude, the volatile and tumultuous... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Spidery col legno strings nag as the firebird begs to be released, and Morlot’s princesses sparkle in their innocent game with the golden apples. The ‘Round Dance’ flows, strings sighing plaintively,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

One of the attractive features of this Seattle disc...is that it has a true ensemble quality. The organist (Joseph Adam) is one of the orchestra’s own keyboardists, and the organ is within the... — The Telegraph, 17th July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…