CD, Takemitsu (composer)

A celebration of the love affair enjoyed between composers and America, this is a winning collection of works which demands repeated listening. Craig Urquhart’s Lamentation for Flute and Orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This album’s title, ‘Dreamtime’, suggests a programme of quiet listening – a slew of soothing adagios, perhaps – but it’s actually nothing of the sort...Whether Mozart had a ‘Romantic vision’... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…

Since Takemitsu's evolution into selfconfessed Romantic, virtually every major label has released something by him, so Otaka has stiff competition, notably Patrick Gallois's fine reading of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 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…

A bejewelled performance of Andriessen's haunting Miroir de Peine is framed by hypnotic Takemitsu (Nostalghia) and a majestic but underpowered Tchaikovsky Serenade. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…