Naxos

Superlative standards already set by this team's Shostakovich couldn't afford to slip in a symphony as great as the Sixth. In the first movement, at least, Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpudlians... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Too much at once, and it all becomes bland and soporif ic. But it ’s not easy to write choral music as sincerely meant as this: genuinely tuneful and popular, as well as being attractive and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

There’s certainly no lack of prowess in these delightful performances. The Arabellas wisely err on the side of briskness for the faster music, but with no loss of grace or refinement…wonderful... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

...these performances are stylish, spirited, and affectionate. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

…Dukes and his colleagues… present an attractive, rounded (and clearly recorded) portrait of a composer whose music is well worth getting to know. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There's vintage Copland here, and Leonard Slatkin is a persuasive advocate; but the full-size string section of the Detroit Symphony occasionally swamps details...this is an enjoyable programme;... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the work that really shows the composer at his most potent is the 1945 Fantasia...even when the Amazon jungle seems at its most choking in this latest addition to Naxos’s series ‘The Music of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and choir with dash and urgency, the period instruments adding a litheness to the textures – there is no room for false sentimentality. Pelly goes for... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…