Browse: Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 2

These are driven, lively and largely convincing performances by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A fine, flowing account, recorded with just enough resiny grit and grain in the soloist’s sound...Siranossian plays with lyricism and passion, as well as with a rapt inward quality at the first... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dumay makes a convincing case for the First Symphony and sympathetically supports Gomziakov's lively account of the Cello Concerto, with some delicate poetry in the slow movement. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The First Symphony's airy nature and the young composer's ear for instrumental colour are to the fore in this performance from the Malmo Symphony Orchestra under Marc Soustrot, the second movement's... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 2 out of 5 stars More…

There are few if any signs that the classically-proportioned Symphony in A major is the work of a 15-year-old…It’s a remarkable assuredness that is admirably engaging in this lithe performance…A... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

these are scintillating performances — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…