Presto Recordings of the Year, Rimsky Korsakov (composer)

Make no mistake, Romaniw is a great talent. The plush richness of her soprano is astonishing...Romaniw taps into the melancholy of the Russian songs especially well…The selection from Janáček’s... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

[Scheherazade] is a work that well demonstrates the orchestra's virtues, which include not only a fine set of principals who have their individual voices in the brighly hued scoring but an overall... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019 More…

Noseda’s pacing leads us to the heavenly kingdom of Fevroniya and her beloved Vsevolod, killed in battle with the marauding Tatars, with a natural ease that creates the innocent sense of wonder... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Latry’s characteristic integrity and virtuosic verve illuminate everything he touches – particularly in the lascivious glissando that ends his own arrangement of Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance…when... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

At the heart of the album is the cycle Huit Chansons de Fleurs, by Ricky Ian Gordon. He’s no slouch when it comes to picturing words in his music – so we have drunken bees teetering along the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

this is a special release because of the importance of these Mercury recordings in the history of symphonic music in America. The majority of the material (22 of the 31 CDs) has never been released... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2023 More…