SACD, Chandos (label)

The playing of the Sinfonia of London is astonishingly brilliant, with Hollywood-dream glories in the string tone. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019More…

Wilson takes an altogether more balletic approach [than Tortelier]. But there is no lack of wallop: the opening of ‘Circenses’ has tremendous adrenaline…The Triton Fountain sparkles with vitality…There... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2020More…

this superbly played and sumptuously recorded disc from the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson amply demonstrates the profound benefits of trusting Ravel. Has Ma mère l’Oye ever sounded more... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams’s textures, Wilson’s Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Wilson, who conducted Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms in 2017, proves an exceptional advocate, bringing to the piece the same expertise and mastery he would accord to the symphonic repertoire of... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Wilson seizes on the opportunities to bring out the vivid colours of Dutilleux’s score, with the brass blazing superbly and every rhythm alive with meaning. No less striking is the music’s lyricism,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Here in [the Bridge Lament] is a prime example of the heartfelt precision and beauty of tone that typifies John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London. There’s plenty of heart, too, in their superlative... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

among the best Gerontius performances on record. Davis resists the temptation to make the work sound like a flabby, imitation Parsifal and the results are outstandingly convincing...[Skelton]... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Wilson is supreme in shading the orchestra to complement the cello line, both clear and expressive. In both cadenzas, Aasgaard draws a dramatically compelling narrative, again coupling precision... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…