Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat; Lieutenant Kijé Suite

‘John Butt’s deep grasp of Handel’s rhetoric and of large scale structure turns the work’s patchwork quality into a virtue’

‘Performance of all three works are lively and compelling, and the recording is first-rate’

‘The Munich Radio Orchestra handles the extremities in dynamics and textures well'

‘The disc is a masterpiece of sleuthing and programming’

‘Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn build a three-parter that makes this a very special Grieg recital.’

'Downes stays at the centre of the music and, while sax player Tom Challenger is never far away, the other players move in and out of orbit'

'Trio Khnopff are enterprising, placing the Piano Trio next to other compositions Weinberg wrote following the end of the Second World War, rather than the obvious coupling with Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio- completed a year before his'

‘This is directorship at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast’