Accentus Music

Howarth’s brilliant arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures is much less famous than Ravel’s, but in a sense it’s more faithful to the piano original, being scored not for full orchestra, but for... — Sunday Times, 20th October 2013 More…

Berman and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales deliver a terrific performance...what really makes this new recording so enticing is the sheer energy and enthusiasm with which conductor and orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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…

a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is nothing inappropriate or anticlimactic about this performance…You can see the right emotions featured in Chailly’s face. His eyes are shut, Karajan-like, at the creation of the world,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Clarity with power, clear balances and ferocity combined: Riccardo Chailly's latest Mahler Five surely has the best of all possible worlds for this comprehensive darkness-to-light epic. It's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Chailly takes us on a journey from darkness to light...He's a pleasure to watch, being neither over-demonstrative nor affectedly matter-of-fact. He looks like what he's conducting and one sense... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…