LPO

[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…

It's a tremendously attractive, sometimes serene, often joyous work, drawing on Indian melodic and rhythmic elements, European structures and developmental procedures, and textures from both... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These are refreshing and reassuring readings, DDD-engineered by Mike Clements to faithfully reflect the immediate and lucid Royal Festival Hall acoustic. — classicalsource.com, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mackerras's reading of the Symphonic Variations would stand up well to any competition...In the wrong hands these 27 variations can seem bitty. Mackerras underlines the bigger picture with flawless... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…