Signum

All the madrigals are crisp and right in the groove – a pretty flawless set of sonic experiments and wisecracks. Disney this emphatically ain’t. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2023 More…

Throughout this set one is constantly reminded that, late in life...Maazel took an expansive but at the same time grand and intense view of these masterworks. The London concerts were a true... — classicalsource.com, December 2014 More…

The catalogue is full of Brahms symphony cycles but these Dohnányi readings are consistent and very rewarding and, as such, are competitive. This set is well worth considering, especially since... — MusicWeb International, June 2012 More…

With Williams…expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

What a ride it’s been; a wilful First, a splendid Second and now an incandescent Third. Make no mistake, for all his faults - perceived or otherwise - this octogenarian conductor is a Mahlerian... — MusicWeb International, 16th December 2013 More…

Individually, this was an engaging series from Signum; the simplistic packaging here perhaps belies the treasures that are to be found within. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019 More…

Those who share [Lorin Maazel's] apparent conviction that the only way to renew these familiar scores is to emphasise and push to extremes their every dynamic marking or tempo modification will... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

The 16-disc set gathers together each of David Goode’s recordings from this ambitious and rewarding project (for both performer and listener), recorded over the last five years on the Metzler... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020 More…