LPO

Detail is strong in The Firebird, though muted horn and offstage trumpet can’t easily be heard (brass recession can be a problem). The Rite of Spring is assured from the start, woodwind timbres... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jurowski applies his hallmark fastidiousness in close collaboration with LPO players, giving Stravinsky’s Tchaikovsky ballet an even more elegiac, intimate atmosphere than usual. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this performance has lots to commend it. Haitink has always been good at large-scale structures; he’s a musician who can knit the most discursive of Mahler symphonies into a satisfying whole.... — The Arts Desk, 7th April 2012 More…

[Violin Concerto] Repin has a superb sense of line and a wonderful cantabile. Tensile and lyrical, his playing is mesmeric. The LPO are also on form, the Scherzo stunning in every respect. A... — Classical Music, September 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Tennstedt’s Petrushka has a rugged feel…The orchestra really digs into the score, relishing its earthy, folklike qualities…The 1919 Firebird Suite is – forgive the pun – a slow burn of a performance.... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018 More…

Both works are graced with strongly characterised playing under Jurowski’s precise direction. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…