Browse: Capriccio (label)

[Aliyev] is very good, giving these little-known works his fullest efforts. Under the assured direction of Howard Griffiths, such a champion of the unsung composer, the ORF Vienna orchestra... — MusicWeb International, May 2023 More…

Gregor Bühl and his ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra do the honours with care and sensitivity, and the sound is excellent. So here’s to Vol 8. I can’t wait. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

Without being unromantic about it, Poschner seems to delight in clarifying the gears and workings of the inner machinery. — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2022 More…

Mahler meets Hollywood meets Wagner. Hans Rott was a fine orchestrator – the concluding Pastoral Prelude should be heard more for its rollicking fugue alone. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Hard to believe that Mahler didn’t pilfer most of the ideas from the Scherzo of Rott’s beautifully orchestrated Symphony No. 1. This second volume continues a great introduction to an overlooked... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

fleet, idiomatic and clearsighted...I’m inclined to think it’s the finest performance of the score now available. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

The new recording comes from concert performances at least year’s Salzburg Festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. It’s led with great gusto and accuracy by one of his leading pupils…The... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

Bertrand de Billy is in his element, whether it’s on the dance f loor, ushering in the Dies Irae or leading a battery of orgasmic bells. Raymond Very is a handsome Don Juan, at his best in the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

From the big-boned War and Peace suite to the refinement of the lyrical Harp Concerto, this makes an excellent introduction to Rota’s various talents as a composer. His 1967 Concerto for Strings,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…