Chandos

As with the series as a whole, the performances are exemplary. Noseda’s familiar combination of rigour and emotional extremism is in evidence throughout...Gillian Keith is the aptly glacial-sounding... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

as their wonderfully vivid performances attest, these are all first-rate pieces deserving a firm place in the repertoire…this is a disc to cherish, — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These works sound as if written at the turn of the 20th century, certainly by an admirer of Scriabin’s Divine Poem. Both, in fact, date from the 1950s…The Bournemouth Symphony play the music... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

For those invigorated by the Silesian Quartet’s complete quartet set, here’s an exciting new addition: two piano quintets. They are works of real substance and originality. The First (1952)... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The symphony is attractively neat and satisfying, but Ripening is on a completely new emotional plane, with a Mahlerian juxtaposition of emotions, a scintillating emotional thrust and a virtuoso... — Classic FM Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There’s no shortage of Orthodox choral discs, but here is one worth adding to anyone’s collection...Perhaps the choir’s USP is the number and quality of its bassi profundi (‘oktavists’). Those... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…