Browse: James Conlon (conductor)

The set’s high point is ‘Das war sehr gut, Mandryka’ from Arabella, in which the gradual expansion of her tone quality becomes a visceral dramatisation of how her character fearlessly opens her... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

…Stravinsky… would surely have been intrigued, occasionally irritated and ultimately spellbound by Christian Chaudet's vision. Using singers from the original 1999 recording, Chaudet has drawn... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In these recordings, covering a wide selection of her operatic repertoire, and made either live or in the studio between 1996 and 2010, her technical skills, expressivity and interpretative insights... — Opera, May 2021 More…

Musical delight and enchantment don't come much stronger than this; Poulenc at his most ebullient, but also warm and eloquent in the two-piano Concerto, the solo Piano Concerto, and the Aubade. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The gem is Tabea Zimmermann's moving account of the Rhapsody Concerto; the clear sense of direction never allows the music to spill over into sentimentality… — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Recordings of these works are no longer rare… but this collection is one of the best of them, with James Conlon driving the Bavarian RSO through the relentless rhythms of the Fifth Symphony,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…