REVIEWS

What the Magazines and the critics say
Last updated 28 March 2002


SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 6

Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Valeri Polyansky

'Polyansy's superb choir packs a mighty punch in the work's relentless and frenzied opening salvos and the harsh orchestral timbres are delivered with unremitting aggression'.
BBC Music Magazine

VIVALDI
String Concertos, Volume 2

Collegium Musicum 90
Simon Standage

'Playing is excellent with barely a sour note throughout 36 movements.'
BBC Music Magazine

VERDI - AIDA

Jane Eaglen; Rosalind Plowright
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry

'...devotees of Peter Moores's Opera in English project will not want to miss this, surely one of the best in the series to date'.
BBC Music Magazine
'Plowright's brilliant attack is unerringly caught, happily so, as her superb performance is the best reason for buying this set'.
Gramophone


CHAN 9966

RUBBRA
Sinfonia concertante; Ode to the Queen; etc.
Howard Shelley (piano) Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox

'A mouthwatering reissue comprising four outstandingly eloquent performances...'
Gramophone

English Guitar Concertos
Craig Ogden (guitar)
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox

'...with Craig Ogden providing a formidable successor , matching in sensitivity and flair Bream's own vintage recordings'.
Gramophone


CHAN 9963

REGER
Psalm 100
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 132

Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Valeri Polyansky

'A fine introduction to Reger's unjustly neglected works for choir and orchestra'.
Gramophone