Dvořák - Czech Suite, Op. 39

the performance as a whole displays such unfailing purpose, sensitivity and freshness of new discovery that I felt I was encountering the music for the first time...The SACD sound throughout... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

There’s an impressive level of excellence throughout, though Swensen is adaptable to moods between and within concertos…I love his natural way with slow movements, especially Mendelssohn’s and... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Hero's Song, a colourful, rather sprawling tone-poem, was Dvorák's last orchestral work and isn't an easy piece to bring off. Wit finds genuine nobility in it, while his gentle, mellow way... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Măcelaru and his orchestra have the lilt and charm of them with nothing forced or over-exerted and yet with an openness to be excitable where it counts. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2022 More…

All the performances are excellent with Jakub Hrůša, still in his mid-twenties, drawing colourful and alert playing from the Prague Philharmonia… — Gramophone Magazine, June 2006 More…