Déjà Reviews

(Déjà Review) Filled to the brim with a wide range of brass music [TPr]

(Déjà Review) Music that is reasonably challenging but will more than compensate with repeated hearings [MC]

(Déjà Review) Another unearthed gem, sensitively performed and beautifully recorded [DBl]

(Déjà Review) Committed playing from Menuhin’s Indian Summer, excellently partnered by son Jeremy [GF]

An excellent all-round recording [EML]

A work of staggering scale and substance superbly recorded [RB]

(Déjà Review) An astonishing survival of a cherishable tradition, bringing unique insights and the lifetime’s experience of a great conductor [LF]

(Déjà Review) The whole disc is absolutely delightful [GH]

(Déjà Review) This fascinating conjunction of nostalgia and forward thinking provides us with some beautifully evocative mood music [AO]

(Déjà Review) A multitude of thanks are due to Naxos for this, proof positive that there is infinite joy to be gleaned from Rossinian by-roads [CC]

(Déjà Review) Recordings that do the greatest of service to Mathias’s music [CC]

(Déjà Review) Harnoncourt captures all the drama, humor and elegance with which these scores are rife [KS]

(Déjà Review) A most enjoyable release to which I’m very happy to give an unreserved welcome [JQ]

Revelatory – hypnotic in the extreme, close to Scriabin in mystical mode [CC]

(Déjà Review) A well planned, superbly played programme that is a pure joy from start to finish [HC]

(Déjà Review) A real success here, then, from all angles [CC]

(Déjà Review) Bruckner would surely have been pleased with the passionate commitment shown here [TB]

(Déjà Review) This recording has been absent from the catalogues for too long [JW]

It’s great that these performances are newly available, but sample before you buy [JW]

A lack of documentation detracts only a little from the excellent performances [JQ]

(Déjà Review) Often searingly beautiful, often surprisingly inventive, and always brilliantly performed [EML]

(Déjà Review) Mehta knows how to handle large forces, but is less successful in conveying the music’s symphonic direction and flow [TB]

An interesting, provocative reading of the Symphony and the performances of the songs are very good [JQ]

Christoff is delightfully over the top, hugely enjoyable and making more straight-laced versions sound boring [TH]