Wiener Symphoniker

Luisi recognises that this work’s downbeat emotional trajectory is made more effective with plenty of light and shade...this is an affectionate, lyrical reading of a slow movement which needn’t... — The Arts Desk, 11th May 2013 More…

Jordan, who's often tended to apply a late-Romantic conducting approach to earlier works, enriches with just that extra degree in these always engaging, sometimes challenging performances…[he]... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This first movement, while fresh and genial, is a little short on mystery...Luisi, like several recent exponents, launches the slow movement with massed double basses rather than that vulnerable-sounding... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

[Ančerl] taps a vein of nostalgia and homesickness in this beautiful account of Dvorak’s “American” symphony, as poignant as any I know. In this work and in Smetana’s patriotic tone-poem, he... — Sunday Times, 12th July 2015 More…