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The best singing comes from Annette Dasch’s Elsa, although her vibrato occasionally verges on unsteadiness; Georg Zeppenfeld’s mellow but light King Henry, short on low resonance; and Samuel... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

this is the most dangerous, risk-taking performance of them all. Nelsons propels forward but never overdrives the exuberant rushes and crises of the mountaineers...[Salome's dance] has personality... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…an unexpectedly effective coupling of two concertos that inhabit completely different worlds… Steinbacher certainly has the measure of both, delivering technically impeccable and beautifully... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

One of the most substantial contributions to the Shostakovich year. — FonoForum More…

Right from the lugubrious opening clarinet solo, you can feel him nuancing with tender loving care, adding dynamic variations of his own in the manner of Mariss Jansons, and pacing the longer-term... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The music… the Rosenkavalier Suite has never worked better to my ears, the Presentation of the Rose taken at a studied tempo few singers would appreciate, yet touched with the most delicate and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is plenty of colour and razor-sharp playing in this new version, the recording vividly capturing the orchestra in the splendid acoustics of Symphony Hall...The control in the woodwind fugue... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Nelsons inspires great enthusiasm in his audience. However, his cool and disciplined style of music-making rather mutes the works on this disc which run the emotional gamut from despair to exhilaration...the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Nelsons and the CBSO propel the opening paragraph of the Symphony with tremendous energy and heroic determination, adopting a tempo that is perhaps a notch faster than Shostakovich's more measured... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a superb pianist at the height of their powers [...] teamed to a conductor with whom they seem to have instinctive rapport...there's drama aplenty in the big first movement of the [Second] Concerto.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…