Both concertos enjoy bright, barnstorming performances from pianist Xiayin Wang accompanied with matching flair by the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances…Big plaudits to the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances.

There’s a mercurial quality in Wang’s playing that gives her performance of the First Concerto a markedly choreographic feeling…The BBC Philharmonic have gone from strength to strength in this series. They are superb, idiomatic partners for Wang in the concertos and have the opportunity for their own virtuoso display in the Variaciones concertantes…Mena’s reading is refined yet full of subtle feeling and the recorded sound is spectacular.

Fine pieces from a composer whose music is well worth exploring. As advocates for their brilliance they could not have more persuasive proponents than Wang, Mena, and the BBC Philharmonic...Wang proves to be a most compelling interpreter of this magical, intoxicating piece [the Concerto]…[she] is afforded ample opportunity to show off her impressive double octaves, particularly in the piece’s final moments.

The present disc, no less well recorded than were its two predecessors, is further enhanced by extensive annotations from Gerald Larner and the conductor. Ginastera aficionados and newcomers alike need not hesitate.