Orchestral, Szymanowski (composer)

I admire the restraint, elegance and bravura of the orchestral playing under Alsop's baton. She finds a new way of reading this Dionysian score with much focus on detail, thus creating an orchestral... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2026More…

Three of Szymanowski's most important works show Rattle's ability to energise music in which he believes. Sensuality and cogency blend in refined sound. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Szymanowski's Symphony No. 2 shows him beginning to approach his first maturity as a composer… In Symphony No. 3, composed five years later, the mature Szymanowski has arrived. Again, this... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The first impression here is that Rattle is relatively new to Szymanowski. There's a huge enthusiasm here, a missionary quality that bespeaks the recent convert. On the other hand the care over... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

These performances prove ideal, finding luminosity at the opening, and delivering a taut, energetic fugal finale...In the oberek dance rhythms of the orgiastic finale, Gardner shows how he has... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…