Accentus Music

The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

There's plenty of contrast [in the Shchedrin]: the misalliance of the two soloists, who only really come together in the climbing apotheosis; the cello in extreme registers; the piano's toccata... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Mahler] all starts trenchantly enough, allowing the nightmare of the first movement development and its gracious idyll [to] take wing..The first disc is gorgeously brilliantly programmed... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[La valse] is extremely fine, as indeed are the Daphnis Suites, where the playing is superbly accomplished in its understated virtuosity and Chailly is marvellously acute in his understanding... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

[Chailly] has turned wiry Gewandhaus strings into muscular proponents; the first real moment of magic is when he gives the cor anglais space to etch the Alpine idyll at the heart of the first... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…