Concertos, Castelnuovo-Tedesco (composer)

The Concerto italiano is not the breezy, pseudo-Victorian piece that its title might suggest; indeed, it is rather a melancholic work...[I profeti is] a rather more lively and colourful work...Its... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2015 More…

Even when material is stretched thinly, the lyrical flow in these works – all unpublished, and previously unrecorded – remains irresistible, especially in these passionate Italian performances,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

What gives pleasure here are generally those works convincingly performed by the forces their creators originally intended. There are muscular, imaginative and witty solo pieces by Rózsa and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Of the two works, the Castelnuovo-Tedesco is much more virtuosic and extrovert, with lots of technically demanding passagework…In contrast, Hans Gál keeps a much tighter rein on the structural... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…