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As vivid a performance as one would expect. That stylishly lazy trombone, a dying monster, is emblematic of the characteristic licence the conductor gives to his splendid Budapest players…the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Of the two performances, the Fifth Symphony is particularly successful, Its first movement, taken at a real lick, has a tremendous atmosphere of excitement and coiled tension…There’s much to... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020 More…

it stretches the instrument and the violinist to the limit. For this recording Rachel Podger uses the same instrument throughout, putting it through the pain, as part of the fascination for... — CD Review, 17th October 2015 More…

By the standards of the average Vivaldi violin concerto, the La stravaganza set is quite extravagant stuff, full of fantasy and experiment – novel sounds, ingenious textures, exploratory melodic... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

You can always expect insights from Iván Fischer's energised Budapest Festival Orchestra, and he has his own distinctive view on this most traumatic and ultimately transcendent of symphonies…for... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015 More…

More than half a century separates the earliest and the latest of the works here. The C major Trio Sonata was one of Bach's earliest compositions, written at the age of 17 more or less under... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…