Cleveland Orchestra

a virtuosic Cleveland Orchestra, with shrilling clarinets outstanding, responds brilliantly to Franz Welser-Möst’s justifiable hell-for-leather tour of the medieval prankster’s shortlived exploits...... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Overall, [the performances] paint a picture of sovereign technical command, with an upholstered warmth of tone not automatically in the DNA of American orchestras…the Cleveland Orchestra has... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In live performance you might want more drive in the first movement of Prokofiev Two, but excellent recorded balance allows one to absorb the tone-colours of America’s best brass and all the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Sixth Symphony’s shocking innocence and grim drama has rarely sounded so close at hand. If there’s one thing I miss it’s the ability to stand back from vivid, immediate impression and bring... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s all glittering virtuoso stuff, and it suits the Cleveland players down to the ground. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The trademark Cleveland sound, both ultra-classy and gloss-free, here intersects with Welser-Möst’s masterly approach to this greatest of symphonies – surely one of music’s supreme triumphs... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Punctilious articulation in all sections of the orchestra marks the opening movement, with phrasing more precisely etched than in most rival performances. There’s no sense of pedantry, however,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…