'…a must-hear experience for any admirer of late Romanticism.'
BBC Music Magazine ‘Pick of the Month’ on CHAN 9986

'The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra plays with typical musicianship and commitment for its dynamic conductor, and the recording is equally typical in being resonant and ripe.'
International Record Review on CHAN 10171

'The BBC Philharmonic’s playing and Chandos’s recording uphold their customary high standards…'
Gramophone ‘Disc of the Month’ on CHAN 10171

'He is an excellent conductor, and I can’t imagine better performances…'
American Record Guide

'…a must-hear experience for any admirer of late Romanticism.'
BBC Music Magazine ‘Pick of the Month’ on CHAN 9986

'The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra plays with typical musicianship and commitment for its dynamic conductor, and the recording is equally typical in being resonant and ripe.'
International Record Review on CHAN 10171

'The BBC Philharmonic’s playing and Chandos’s recording uphold their customary high standards…'
Gramophone ‘Disc of the Month’ on CHAN 10171

'He is an excellent conductor, and I can’t imagine better performances…'
American Record Guide

''It's good to have these rare items played by a first-class orchestra, and finely recorded. James Ehnes is an eloquent soloist… and Gianandrea Noseda's affection for the music is evident throughout.''
BBC Music Magazine

''This is a well-performed CD in excellent sound, particularly welcome at the time of the composer's centenary.''
Gramophone

''Gianandrea Noseda understands the music's lyrical strength and fragile soundworld perfectly; the playing of the BBC Philharmonic is exemplary, too.''
The Guardian

'Performances are excellent, as are sonics…'
American Record Guide

'The BBC Philharmonics playing and Chandos recording uphold their customary high standards, the orchestras principal conductor Giandrea Noseda yielding not an inch to his predecessors in turns of energy and insight.'
Gramphone Disc of the Month

'Chandos first CD of orchestral music by Mieczyslaw Karolwicz, the great hope of the Young Poland movement who died in 1909 aged only 32, was one of my favourite discs of 2002. For this follow-up, Gianandrea Noseda takes over from Yan Pascal Tortelier, and the repertoire comes from earlier in Karlowiczs short career' A worthy successor to the first release - and there must be at least another discs worth to come'
BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month

'Gianandrea Noseda brings the same level off devotion to this unfamiliar music as did Yan Pascal Tortelier in Vol 1 (CHAN 9986), with the BBC Philharmonic, as so often, giving the impression that is has been playing it all its life. The strings shine in the Serenade while the brass come to the fore in the more grandiose passages of the Symphony.'
The Telegraph

'Hes [Karlowicz] best known for his symphonic poems, but Noseda gives the premiere recording of Karlowiczs only symphony, an early programmatic work that is a masterly synthesis of Richard Strauss and Tchaikovsky (think of the Fifth). The fillers are both even earlier - and equally well caught.'
The Independent

'Charming and worth investigating.'
Classic FM Magazine

''Mieczyslaw Karlowicz is served like a kind by the Chandos engineers for this second volume of orchestral works. Nodesda makes a dedicated successor to Tortelier, conductor for the first volume. He draws some intense playing from the excellent Manchester orchestra, especially in long-drawn, quieter passages, and the Romance from the string Serenade, where the composer evokes Mahler, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Elgar, and a variety of Nordic composers, but with a calm confidence all his own.''
Fanfare (USA)