Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, vol. 1

"Dmitry Kitaenko continues his Indian summer in the company of musicians with whom he has been ... guest conductor since 2011. On this evidence their playing is nicely turned rather than supercharged but then this programme scarcely lends itself to earth-shattering revelations ... Kitaenko ensures that it sounds pleasant enough ... The design is attractive too".

"Editor's choice: The early evolution of Stravinsky, from fledgling to 'Firebird' feels like the most natural thing in the world as one listens to this, the first in a three-volume series from Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic tracing the chronology of his musical journey. It helps, of course, that the instinct and intellect of this most inquisitive and searching of conductors makes alle the right connections, pointing up the transformation like it was an inevitabililty waiting to happen ... The key element distinguishing Jurowski's readings is 'movement'. His Firebird has fluidity and an innate sense of physicality. There is great suppleness to everything".