LPO

this performance by the London Philharmonic under its principal conductor offers consistently high orchestral standards and focused participation from the assembled choirs, who show skill in... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s no pretending that the LPO violins initially have the sheen of the Vienna Philharmonic…but as details accumulate in the thorny path through the forest at the first movement’s heart,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Jurowski applies his hallmark fastidiousness in close collaboration with LPO players, giving Stravinsky’s Tchaikovsky ballet an even more elegiac, intimate atmosphere than usual. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing of the orchestra is first-class throughout, with mellifluous strings and wonderfully phrased and blended brass. Also impressive is Skrowaczewski’s grip on the work’s architecture,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

The spiritual charge of MacMillan’s Oratorio is made palpable, its heady mix of wonder, trepidation and profound mystery stirringly captured. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This compilation works remarkably well, providing a sufficiently carried sequence of contrasts in tempo and character to offset the predominantly genial nature of music of the writing. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Norman adds lustre to the already burnished orchestral playing in five songs, familiar from her studio version with Masur. Interpretatively there’s not much to choose between them, but she’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…