Alexander Shelley

Not many musicians become popular enough to be identifiable by their first name alone. That the Montenegrin guitarist Milo Karadaglic has achieved this is testament to his charismatic brilliance... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Shelley and the orchestra respond to this emotional world with suitably impassioned accounts, using tempos that are energetic yet spacious enough to steep us in, for instance, the full effect... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Erik Schumann gives a most likeable performance of the Violin Concerto...he has a clear idea of when to relax his tone and allow orchestral soloists to come through, yet his more energetic solo... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Although Shelley has the strings create a perfectly smooth surface in the slow introduction to Schumann’s Second...the dotted rhythms of the un poco più vivace (at 1'54") instantly shatter that... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

Blending new music, writing, dance and video, the work offers a powerful meditation on (female) experience and is by turns uplifting, unsettling, mischievous and deeply poignant, albeit with... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Between familiar Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov is Walter Boudreau’s contemporary Asylum Concerto. As its name implies, it’s a rowdy beast, its demands well negotiated here by Alain Lefèvre. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…