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If this Vixen is good, the Sinfonietta is outstanding – arguably the best on disc, though you need to experience the work in a concert hall with the nine trumpets blazing. They’re supremely... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

More than ably supported by the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch, Gens spans the gamut of emotions, puzzled, hopeful, coquettish, desperately pleading, def iant and, ultimately,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Ravel's sense of instrumental characterisation is crucial, and the results are delectable. All the instruments used are listed in the booklet alongside their players. But the voices are just... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Curnyn's delicious recording of the surviving score is amplified with a sinfonia from Admeto and a passacaglia from Radamisto. These fizzily, sexily swung orchestral additions emphasise the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This sounds throughout, even in the numinous calling of the Lord which conjures up the composer’s familiar spooky vein, like Martinů lite…There’s a performance of the First Symphony, Bělohlávek’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…