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The playing has individual distinction and corporate unity of purpose. The choice of tone-colours, the thrust and definance in fast movements and the matching of nuance to the range of quieter... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…

Pieter Wispelwey… he does bring exceptional qualities to bear in a reading that has a profound sense of drama. …coupled with a splendid performance of the Symphonic Variations, this issue is... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…entertaining enough, especially when played with the cheerful abandon it is here. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…

…Pieter Wispelwey… carries his audience through Prokofiev's epic narrative with a good deal of conviction, embracing wholeheartedly the work's vast array of emotions, which, in the central movement,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Florilegium takes a modern stance - one-to-a-part 'period' instruments at 'Baroque' pitch. Technically they're superb: there's immaculate intonation in pairs of unison strings...They're characterful... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The opening moments of this disc leave no doubt that it’s going to be enormous fun, and from a virtuoso orchestra with a superb conductor. Surely the opening flourish of the Overture to The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…