BR Klassik

Score, performance, recording: all as exhilarating as a work for eight horns and orchestra has any right to be. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…

Rattle shows a keen awareness of orchestral colour and brings an impressive dynamism to the music. His tendency is to be quite speedy – and there is certainly virtue in such an approach. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The centenary of German radio is marked here by works composed at the time. Spikily characterful dance suites by Toch, Weill and Bartók neatly sum up the era, while Krenek’s a cappella choral... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It's thrilling stuff, all tightly marshalled by Harding, though at times that control holds back the work ’s surging energ y. But it’s a small criticism — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s ravishingly played and sung by Howard Arman’s Bavarian forces – taut without being tense, subtle without being unclear, and luminous in its lyricism and warmth. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

Considered as a pocket history of Messiaen’s large-scale writing, this set could hardly be improved upon...All five commercial recordings of La Transfiguration live up to the ambitions of the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2022 More…