Accentus Music

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, 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…

How good to see Riccardo Chailly so radiant at the end of this great event. It's an exhilaration he earns through sheer work as well as injecting the adrenalin at most of the right moments...Chailly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The work, the conductor, the orchestra are all shown in the best light. It is the kind of experience that has you sitting afterwards, for a long time, wondering at the greatness of what you... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…