Orchid Classics

With luminous, sizzling performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony and the Philharmonia, it ’s a feast of musical story telling. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

they approach it with a heightened feeling for Ravel’s sophistication in manipulating his motifs...Nimbly articulated, the Schubert is similarly fastidious, and the symphonic aspirations of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Popov often sounds more baritone than a tenor, almost readying himself for Otello you feel in Ponchielli’s ‘Cielo e mar’...he is an ardent Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon, and at his best in two... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021More…

Intelligent programming and exceptional playing—particularly in the inner works by Janáček and Fujikura—along with excellent sound and well-written program notes by the performer, all add up... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022More…

There’s no denying that this is wonderfully tuneful symphonic music worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster of old, and the production values are very high. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Liebeck and Tilbrook are sensitive advocates for works regarded at the time as harmonically ‘experimental’, but which demonstrate a lovely, impressionistic lushness and commitment to exploration. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 4 out of 5 starsMore…