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Mahler meets Hollywood meets Wagner. Hans Rott was a fine orchestrator – the concluding Pastoral Prelude should be heard more for its rollicking fugue alone. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Labor’s E-Minor Piano Quintet is a magnificent work cast in a tragic mold. His C-Major Piano Quartet is magnificent too, but in a different way, its cast expansive, all-encompassing, benevolent,... — Fanfare, May/June 2020 More…

The new recording comes from concert performances at least year’s Salzburg Festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. It’s led with great gusto and accuracy by one of his leading pupils…The... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

Bertrand de Billy is in his element, whether it’s on the dance f loor, ushering in the Dies Irae or leading a battery of orgasmic bells. Raymond Very is a handsome Don Juan, at his best in the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Fleet, idiomatic and clearsighted...I’m inclined to think it’s the finest performance of the score now available. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

Hard to believe that Mahler didn’t pilfer most of the ideas from the Scherzo of Rott’s beautifully orchestrated Symphony No. 1. This second volume continues a great introduction to an overlooked... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

From the big-boned War and Peace suite to the refinement of the lyrical Harp Concerto, this makes an excellent introduction to Rota’s various talents as a composer. His 1967 Concerto for Strings,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…