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It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Von Otter is spectacular, capturing the nuance of her character’s complexities and adapting her performance to suit the regular interplay with the chorus. Fagerlund’s imaginative response to... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) /4 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…

...even if you decide against this score in the end, this finely recorded, authoritative performance will make the process all the more enjoyable. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Orchestra present a meticulous and fervent engagement with the score, and their efforts must be fully rewarded by attention in the listener — Diapason, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a disc which will be of great interest to Sibelians. The original score of the Karelia music was discovered in the conductor Kajanus's library after his death in 1933 and his widow returned... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…