Presto Editor's Choices
May 2018

Roussel: Suite for Orchestra in F Major, Op. 33
Roussel: Pour une fête de printemps, Op. 22
Roussel: Évocations, Op. 15

François le Roux (baritone), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, CBSO Chorus, Yan Pascal Tortelier

"This is a wonderful treat…Tortelier draws a detailed, yet marvellously atmospheric performance from the BBC Philharmonic, perfectly judging the balance between moments of luxuriance and the need to keep the pace moving. In the final movement, soloists Kathryn Rudge, Alessandro Fisher and François le Roux are utterly idiomatic, while the CBSO chorus, shimmering in the numerous wordless passages, is in especially fine voice." - BBC Music Magazine July 2018