Fabrice Bollon

What makes Josephs Legende and this recording special is Strauss’s striking orchestral mastery...Halle’s Staatskapelle and their conductor Fabrice Bollon rise to these challenges in a performance... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s voluptuously recorded, with enough space to float Magnard’s string writing, and Magnard responds well to Bollon’s spontaneous tempo shifts and ferocious energy. The daring rhapsodic spirit... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

…Moser gives a strong, impassioned account of the Second Concerto… It's in this work that Moser distances himself most noticeably from Maria Kliegel… overall, Moser is more imaginative and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It’s a joy to hear Magnard’s music once more. Beautiful as it is – and it really is – his style was soon to be superseded by the Impressionist movement. Finely wrought playing. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

No shortage of gorgeous orchestrations and soaring tunes here – Goldmark’s tone poems blend Wagner, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann, and are none the worse for it. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Im Frühling] sets the tone for an album packed with colourful, melodious Romantic orchestral music by (to paraphrase Richard Strauss) a really first-class second-rate composer...I enjoyed the... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…