Chandos

They are performances of outstanding musical insight and technical brilliance...James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong perfectly encapsulate the anxieties projecting in both works...But they also... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Douglas superbly draws out the contrasts within each piece, bringing out their individual character, but the two ends of the Brahms life spectrum...seem perhaps closer than is entirely comfortable.... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Cloud Messenger is a 43-minute work of considerableimaginative power. Before its previoussingle-issue release it had been virtually forgottensince its disastrous premiere under Holst'sbaton... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

..Gianandrea Noseda, masterly at pacing and responsive to orchestral colour… Ildar Abdrazakov, certainly the finest bass voice to emerge from Russia in decades. …the performance exerts a fierce,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The most striking feature of these performances is their remarkable clarity of texture which even in the more forceful passages enables us to hear every strand of Mendelssohn’s incredibly resourceful... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Despite occasional echoes of Messiaen and Copland, this is music of obstinate and individuality. Rumon Gamba maintains the devoted advocacy he demonstrated in volume 1, and his Iceland Symphony... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rufinatscha evidently had a gift for a melody full of sunshine. This hour-long D major symphony (his last, from 1865) is full of them — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…

In the first three movements Neeme Järvi indulges in fluctuations of tempo that are unusual these days, though they might well be what Bruckner would have expected. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…