Steve Davislim

Arman is an attentive Mozartian. He’s particularly alert to the felicities of Mozart ’s instrumental writing , both colouristically, and in its role as agent of thematic integration. Throughout,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jacobs is a conductor who always strives to inject as much drama as possible into his performances, and he vividly conveys the sobbing effects and the stabs of pain that run through the Stabat... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

From just about every point of view this is an improvement on Colin Davis's recent Dresden Staatskapelle A Child of Our Time… The soloists are more roundly convincing… and yet they still aren't... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a performance that is never less than stylish and, perhaps most importantly, heartfelt...[Davies and Zazzo] opt for visceral theatricality in their delivery of text, Zazzo tiring somewhat in... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — The Times, 18th April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…