Accentus Music

Howarth’s brilliant arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures is much less famous than Ravel’s, but in a sense it’s more faithful to the piano original, being scored not for full orchestra, but for... — Sunday Times, 20th October 2013 More…

It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Throughout the entire program, Liebreich and his Polish musicians maintain a high standard of performance. It is clearly music that means much to them, but one also gets a forceful impression... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

The piece that fits well with the New World is the concert overture, Othello…Nelsons conveys the work’s turbulent passions, with marvellous control over dynamics and articulation…the sense of... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…