SACD, Challenge Classics (label)

Not surprisingly, [the performances] are much in the same vein as in Vol. 1, which is to say bright and buoyant, with no tricks or surprises but plenty of energy and brilliance. Bonizzoni’s... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

The enchanting opening theme of Symphony No. 5 sets what will be the preponderant tone, vigorous and elegant, and that agreeably bracing idiom is maintained throughout both symphonies. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Like all cycles, it has had ups and downs, but overall it has been as fine as anyone conducting Bruckner at present would be. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The string playing is so crisp and clear, even at faster than-average tempos, that, at least in the two early symphonies, the section sounds smaller than it actually is. Here, he does what Harnoncourt... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Quatuor Dialoguees and the fortepianist Ewald Demeyere make a decent case for the arrangement…[and] there’s some touching extempore ornamentation throughout — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…

Bright and soubrettish of tone...what she lacks in richness and depth, the Swedish soprano makes up for in dramatic involvement...Larsson is well supported by the slightly raw period sonorities... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

[Oliemans's] intelligence and insight trump authenticity in most instances...But it is the piece itself that unfailingly makes the most indelible impression and Gordan Nikolitch leads from the... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…