"It’s certainly attractive music-but Atterberg was good at that. It is songful and charming and rather Scandinavian, and it is played very beautifully by this great Swedish orchestra under Neeme Jarvi ..." 

"... highly recommended." 

Music **** (Good)         Sound ***** (Very Good) 

Artistic Quality 10 Sound Quality 10 

"...This performance is as good as the best of them: spontaneous, impulsive, and exciting, and terrifically recorded in SACD multi-channel sound ..." 

***** - Very Good 

“Recommended.” 

*** - Good album 

"... an attractive mix that is always well-wrought, sometimes downright moving and always interesting ..." 

Performance ****            Recording ***** 

Recording of the Month

"...This new album, with performances and recorded sound that place it ahead of the competition, has an adventurous programme including a coupling of two of his most appealing symphonies Technicolor music in first class performances and recorded sound." 

"Neeme Järvi further channels his Scandinavian commitment with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra into something cherishable with these polished and idiosyncratic performances of orchestral pieces by one of Sweden’s most unusual composers Atterberg’s Sixth Symphony (which in 1928 received a prize from the Columbia Gramophone Company for a piece ‘in the spirit of Schubert,’), is quintessential fare from the composer, and is immensely winning. "

“... this is an engaging and useful release, and with playing of this quality, there seems every possibility that Järvi’s series could morph into the Atterburg cycle of choice.” 

Performance ***** Sonics *****

“ In all these performances Neeme Järvi’s animated conducting style works to the advantage of the music. His spirited account of the fast music is most exhilarating, but while he maintains a urgent momentum he is always responsve to the many beauties and natural flow of the slow sections of these works. It goes without saying that the playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra for their Principal Conductor Emeritus is totally idiomatic throughout. The engineers have achieved an open, clear and quite ravishing sound quality This is a most successful release of unfamiliar Scandinavian music that can be wholeheartedly recommended.”