Chandos

Her connection to the often elusive spirit of the score is evident right from the start, where she turns the obsessively repeating five-note runs into insouciant sneers. And Lloyd and conductor... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2025More…

Gardner is very much on his way to Beechamesque status, though with very clear ideas of his own…Gardner keeps the firm rhythmic definition and a certain elegance of phrasing in the great Unfinished... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This is one of the finest recordings so far in Chandos's 'Opera in English' series, and there's certainly no need to make allowances for the performance because of the language. A Wozzeck to... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 9th July 2003More…

With so many versions of the Symphony and the Symphonic Variations available, it's surprising that these two favourite orchestral works aren't coupled more often. Here Tortelier adds an attractive... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Lortie's technique is not in question...But this music requires more than dedicated technique. When Liszt is in glitter mode...Lortie's sparkling and swarthy playing is impressively glamorous.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Douglas allows the music room to breathe while rendering its structure with clear-sighted rigour…a marvellous account — International Piano, July 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[Wang is] a young player with a formidable technique and grasp of detail vital in this circumstance…Her partners, the BBC Philharmonic, respond in kind under Ben Gernon’s enthusiastic direction.... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2024More…