a world away from what you normally expect to hear from Wagner, and the transparency of the soundallows the winds to come through with more clarity and equality
Simon Thompson - MusicWeb-International.com - 22 May 2014
"Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with clean lines and a sense of texture
Martin Cotton - BBC Radio 3 ’Building a Library’ - 12 July 2014
"The musical salute to the 40th Anniversary of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra assembles three glowing performances from master musicians.
Gary Lemco - Audiophile Audtion - 14 March 2014
"This is a wonderful celebration of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 40th anniversary: sparkling performances, showing this independent-spirited ensemble - one of my own favourites - at their best As usual the Linn sound engineers have done an excellent job." ****
Fiona Maddocks - The Observer - 16 February 2014
Together Ticciati and the strings of the SCO bring out the work’s radiantly rich tones
Classic FM Drive ’Featured Album’ - 17 February 2014
"a gorgeous, gleaming account " ****
Warwick Thompson - SinfiniMusic.com - 6 February 2014
"a performance of luminous beauty " ****
Geoffrey Norris - The Telegraph - 6 February 2014
This marvellous disc marks the SCO’s 40th anniversary by representing its last three principal conductors with a performance apiece. The incumbent, Robin Ticciati, offers Wagner’s ’Siegfried Idyll’, to whose exquisite Romantic rubato he is well attuned. By way of a magically atmospheric contrast, Joseph Swensen gives us Sibelius’s second suite of incidental music for ’The Tempest’: late poetic miniatures. Crowning the sequence, Charles Mackerras conducts Mozart’s Symphony No 41, the ’Jupiter’. The Orchestra shows itself brilliantly adapted to any style and conductor - provided, anyway, they have more than a smack of genius.
Paul Driver - The Sunday Times - 4 February 2014