Browse: Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 in F minor

They’re both electrifying, and they sound absolutely magnificent...Pappano makes sure [the Fourth] sings as often as it can...This is a terrible beauty, energetic, Satanic, utterly spellbinding,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a really good performance [of the Pastoral]. On one level Martyn Brabbins is superbly alert to the intricacies of the musical texture. After on hearing I got the score and listened again... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This set presents RVW in a slightly heretical way that will appeal to those whose RVW tastes have become jaded or for those who have, for whatever reason, been put off by the mainstream cycles.... — MusicWeb International, 5th March 2014 More…

Andrew Manze’s approach, at once equable and gently intense, produces fine results in the first movement [of the Third]…[he] keeps a tight rein on all the eruptive orchestral happenings [of the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

[Jurowski] keeps sonority and expression taut, yet in a way that gives the orchestra time to play. They respond superbly, alighting on the music's idiom - the 80-year-old Vaughan Williams's wryly... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 3 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

Elder builds his climaxes carefully, and judges their relative effect with a sculptural objectivity that enhances rather than lessens the total impression…What moved me most, though, was the... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…