São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Tortelier is...supple and caressing, emphasising the score's Gallic progeniture. Going from the lurid sex and violence of Salome to Schmitt's setting of Psalm 47 should be a major wrench stylistically,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

for once, Prokofiev's Sovietised Fourth does not sound a bombastic and coarsened version of the original; rather, one hears striking and even disturbing echoes of several of his Soviet works...Polished... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

What might the composer have made of Garth Edwin Sunderland’s orchestrations of a selection of his intimate Anniversaries? Sunderland avoids obvious overlaps…at least until his gentle Haydn-aping... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

Neschling and the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra relish the half-chance to swing, and this is a contented, light-on-its-feet performance. I can't help but feel that Mathis der Maler gets boggeed... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Bavouzet] captures the spirit of these disparate works...The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier proves a remarkably deft partner, matching so that the numerous accents,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here, in one convenient box, are all of Marin Alsop’s Bernstein recordings for Naxos–eight CDs worth–performances as fine as Bernstein’s own, and sometimes even better. This version of Mass,... — Classics Today More…