Browse: Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic (orchestra)

[From Ayrshire] is played here with burnished lyricism by the German violinist Linus Roth, who scorches the brief, 'fast-reel', second movement with virtuosity...MacMillan elicits a magnificent... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

freedom from portentousness and unwarranted indulgence...If you are in the market for a chamber-scale performance of these four works in up-to-the-minute sound, you'll not go far wrong with these,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

[Sun Dogs] is a tour de force of choral writing, in which Macmillan is always assured and in the layered execuition of which the Dutch professional choir excels, it sets texts by Michael Symmons... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This set is full of fine things. The Brazilian alto Kismara Pessatti is properly harrowing in the canata-like First Symphony...Stenz displays a subtle handling of the strings-only Fourth...Poppen... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the music is wonderfully direct and genuinely engaging, whether referencing other composers – Ives, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk and Bernard Herrmann – in the concerto, or generating huge waves... — The Guardian, 2nd August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a well-conceived crash-course in significant moments in the development of Pärt's music...With its visceral Romantic gestures convincingly realised by JoAnn Falletta, Lamentate, a reaction... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The orchestral writing in the Concerto...shares something of the melancholy beauty of [his most famous pieces]. The rippling piano part runs through the entire 28 minutes without a pause, while... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…