Weber: Euryanthe Overture / Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli / Brahms: Symphony N

Gramophone Magazine September 2008 “First-rate Tippett from the composer's unlikely champion; bracing Brahms, too…” Sunday Times 17th August 2008 *** “[These works] show what a fine musician the conductor was. Perhaps he was too undemonstrative to make a glamorous international career, but the Euryanthe Overture — taut, precise rhythms, translucent woodwind — is outstanding. The same virtues are evident in a lucid, crisply articulated Brahms 4. The first two movements, arguably, lack warmth, but the scherzo is splendidly incisive and the finale, after a surprisingly slow start, generates powerful momentum and builds to an exciting climax.”