CD, Takemitsu (composer)

What hits you first and leaves you last when listening to this project is the astonishing, exhilarating musicianship of these singers…there’s no arguing with tuning that electrifies even the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

…A Flock Descends… playing is warmly refined and Alsop's more relaxed tempos allow this dreamlike piece… a little more room to drift in its hallucinatory reverie. The same applies, with perhaps... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here, in one convenient box, are all of Marin Alsop’s Bernstein recordings for Naxos–eight CDs worth–performances as fine as Bernstein’s own, and sometimes even better. This version of Mass,... — Classics Today More…

Naxos’s most interesting series continues its rewarding exploration of Japanese guitar music — MusicWeb International, 3rd November 2016 More…