Browse: Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim (orchestra)

The playing is agreeably lively, and the world in general is a better place for Douglas Bostock’s love of unfamiliar repertoire. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

None of these string orchestra works can really be claimed as great discoveries, yet there’s much to savour as Bostock’s German players brush away the music’s dust with elegance and passion. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Timo Handschuh simply does a superlative job with the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra of Pforzheim. Phrasing is carefully contoured, with great attention to color. Clarity among all parts,... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Overall, however, throughout these three concertos, the principles of the French school hold sway, with long-limbed, legato melodies offering welcome timeouts from the running passagework in... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

The puckish skirls and jaunty rhythms in the ‘Prelude’ to Parry’s An English Suite show the 14 players keenly attuned to its courtly, neo-baroque idiom…On paper [the string transcription of Elgar's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…