Philippe Graffin

Both works are dark and virtuosic, and Graff in rises to the challenge, his fragile yet def iant instrument soaring above brooding orchestral forces. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the inspired baton of David Lloyd-Jones play these demanding scores with such glowing sophistication and confidence it seems scarcely believable they... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The resurgence of interest in the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor reaches another milestone with this long-overdue first recording of his Violin Concerto. Coleridge-Taylor completed it in 1911... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The first two violin concertos of Saint-Saëns were composed in reverse order. The Second is the longer and lesser-known of the two, but the First Concerto more resembles the thematic charm and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This refreshing recording takes its name from the subtitle of Peter Fribbins’s concerto for violin and orchestra, a showcase for Philippe Graffin and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra that... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Strongly tonal and lyrical, Jongen's chief influences seem to be Richard Strauss and Cesar Franck…[Graffin's] tender, slender tone in softer passages is one of the disc's main attractions but... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

Most of [the transcription] works well enough...and there are even one or two gains...Graffin makes a very appealing case for it...Clara Schumann's Three Romances are much more than salon sweetmeats,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…