CD, Corigliano, J (composer)

In very different ways, both works combine taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention...With full-bodied, Brahmsian writing for both instruments, it... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Corigliano is very much his own man: capable of a Bartókian concentrated intellectual strength, but ultimately a more lyrical thinker… It's a cogent and moving musical journey, splendidly... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is another incarnation of John Corigliano's Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra derived from it (1997); then the Concerto (2003); and now the composer... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If forced to choose a first investment, I suppose I’d go for the all-stereo Vol. 2, principally because Paray’s Rolls-Royce orchestra (which is what it sounds like) was at its very best in French... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…