LPO

You don’t have to be ravingly patriotic to enjoy this, but it helps. When the Jubilee flotilla travels down the Thames on June 3, the London Philharmonic will be on board. This CD gives a foretaste... — The Times, 12th May 2012 More…

[Masur] generally takes the work at a flowing pace, giving its opening a Beethoven-like nobility and vigour…If the finale feels rather discursive in this performance…Masur and the LPO nevertheless... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are two marvellous orchestral display-pieces… Despite a host of sterling British competition from Boult, Barbirolli, Handley, Lloyd-Jones et al, Osmo Vänskä seems to have totally identified... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, one-time leader of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, has an instrumentalist's inside view of the music, allowing you to marvel at the composer's contrapuntal... — The Telegraph, 21st June 2008 More…