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Not surprisingly, these works of the 75-year-old composer, still rooted in late Romanticism in essence if not detail, sound rather sadly anachronistic...Triendl, Bäumer and the Kristiansand musicians... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

Kirschnereit deserves all the acclaim coming to him these days...The first two phrases of the Second Concerto are enough to announce a player of uncommon discernment, and thereafter he treats... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

Like so many academic late-Romantics, Röntgen is strong on control but not so much on flights of fancy...Huge credit to Gregor Horsch, David Porcelijn and the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra for... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

I’m grateful to CPO for making Röntgen’s symphonies available, and in interpretations as committed and handsomely recorded as these. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2022 More…

David Porcelijn secures some excellent playing from the NDR Radiophilharmonie, and the recording is absolutely top-notch. — International Record Review More…

…the andante second movement and finale show Röntgen's great originality in that rarest of qualities: the ability to write memorable tunes. This, in the final analysis, is the secret of Röntgen's... — Classics Today More…

these symphonies are melodious, stylistically colourful, conservatively dramatic, elegantly unpretentious. — MusicWeb International, 27th August 2013 More…