DVD Video, Ravel (composer)

[La valse] is extremely fine, as indeed are the Daphnis Suites, where the playing is superbly accomplished in its understated virtuosity and Chailly is marvellously acute in his understanding... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Plenty of the Phil’s strengths are on show, chief among them the rhythmic sophistication and clarity instilled during 17 seasons under Esa-Pekka Salonen and his diet of 20th-century music including... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2020 More…

The CDs, DVDs and book are housed in a large, beautifully produced deluxe presentation box: 32x32cm. It is laudable that Varsi’s legacy has now been made available, in this age where reissues... — MusicWeb International, December 2015 More…

The occasion is Valery Gergiev’s appearance at the 2016 BBC Proms in his first season with the Munich Philharmonic. Opening with Bolero underlines the sense of showcasing his new toy: it is... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Where Rattle and company radiate love, Kissin gives us duty. Still, nothing else casts a chill. Hearing the orchestra's splendours, observing the smiles and eye contact, you'd never believe... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Boulez paints the often delicate colours of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales with subtlety, the Vienna Philharmonic's woodwind showing their finesse. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…