Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1 Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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Such music makes huge demands and these are met by Noseda with unfaltering command and lucidity. What could so easily topple into bombast is presented with an enviable clarity and acuteness. Chandos’s sound and presentation are excellent.

Gramophone

These are bold performances, likely to match Kurt Masur’s Leipzig set from the late 1970s as the most stimulating and reliable around. I suppose I could wait for volume two; but not to long, please.

The Times

It’s good to have these rare items played by a first-class orchestra and finely recorded…

BBC Music Magazine on CHAN 10258 (Dallapiccola)

Anyone who shies away from Liszt’s orchestral music, having heard it played in a way that puts show above substance, ought to be persuaded otherwise by these strong sensitive, sincere performances. The playing is well defined. The interpretations combine taste and imagination, encapsulating the music’s character with refined attention to detail, colour and dramatic impulse.

The Telegraph 'CD of the Week'

Such music makes huge demands and these are met by Noseda with unfaltering command and lucidity. It is presented with an enviable clarity and acuteness.

Here, the Italian Maestro is perfectly attuned to the danger, glamour and emotional intensity of Liszt’s music; these are hair-raising performances. His Tasso, tragic, noble and fiery assertive, is now arguably the finest available, while the austere, subtle instrumental gradations of Orpheus are astonishingly handled. Many commentators have dismissed both Ce qu’on Entend sur la Monatagne and Les Préludes as sprawling, but just for once not a note in either seems out of place. Throughout, you’re reminded that these are seminal scores, and that the music of Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss is unthinkable without them.

The Guardian

First-rate recording enhances compelling performances by the BBC Philharmonic under its exciting and charismatic conductor Gianandrea Noseda, who brings an Italian fire and passion to the music… A fine disc, gloriously played.

The Sunday Telegraph

Their first volume of Liszt’s symphonic Poems is rich in imagery, rapt of sound, and synaesthetic in effect – a beautifully controlled recording. The conclusion of ‘Ce qu’on entend…’ is spectacularly aerated, ‘Tasso’:Lamento e Trionfo’ visceral and passionate, ‘Les Préludes’ intoxicating, ‘Orpheus’ compelling.

Independent on Sunday

Anyone who shies away from Liszt’s orchestral music, having heard it played in a way that puts show above substance, ought to be persuaded otherwise by these strong, sensitive, sincere performances. The playing is well defined. The interpretations combine taste and imagination, encapsulating the music’s character with refined attention to detail, colour and dramatic impulse.

The Telegraph ‘CD of the Week’

These are bold performances, likely to match Kurt Masur’s Leipzig set from the late 1970s as the most stimulating around. I suppose I could wait for volume two; but not too long, please.

BBC Music Magazine

…brilliant and warmly committed playing of the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda…

Gramophone on CHAN 10309 (Dvo¡rák)

…valuable and enjoyable…

The Times on CHAN 10258 (Dallapiccola)

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