LPO

[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This compilation works remarkably well, providing a sufficiently carried sequence of contrasts in tempo and character to offset the predominantly genial nature of music of the writing. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Tennstedt takes a briskish tempo in the opening movement...With warm-bodied string and a fresh-voiced wind choir, the LPO was also the ideal medium for Tennstedt's reading. Their playing is... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

The other jewel is Tennstedt’s Beethoven: Ninth Symphony, crackling with nervous energy from the start and showcasing the LPO’s intuitive relationship with its late lamented German chief. — Financial Times, 27 October 2007 More…

This may not be the finest performance of Beethoven's most forbidding work on disc, but it certainly ranks with the best...Eschenbach is his own man. In his hands, the work is more questioning... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The pairing with the young Nézet-Seguin is inspired, the conductor finding perfect tension at the opening of K466. This is one of the great Mozart performances, up there with Haskil, Brendel... — International Piano, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…