Naxos

This exceptional recording by veteran Austrian conductor Georg Tintner is in a league of its own. It's a beautifully shaped performance, characterfully played and vividly recorded.
What's more,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The mysterious central Andante, recalling Roussel's early period, is utterly magical in Denève's hands...there is beautiful playing from the RSNO, especially in the opening of the final movement,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The English Chamber Orchestra give suitably refined performances – there is, as I have noted, little picturesquely Brazilian to exploit in this music, and the orchestra’s elegant sound is ideal... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2022More…

The strings of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Richard Studt give freshly alive and highly spontaneous perfomrances. — Classic CDMore…

Each decade finds its favourite soloist for the Chants d'Auvergne: in the 1960s it was Natania Devrath, the 70s had Victoria de los Angeles, the 80s Kiri Te Kanawa, the 90s Dawn Upshaw.
They... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

This fine orchestra has a superb violinist leader (crucial in Sea Drift) plus serious class in every department, the brass in particular. The choral singing, too, is exemplary in its firm-toned... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Karajan's recording may yield top position to Rudolf Kempe's 1968 account, but surely to no other. His feeling for the music, as well as his cast - especially Schwarzkopf's Ariadne, Streich's... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…