"Det Kongeligt Kapel er et af de få eksisterende orkesterensembler, som Jean Sibelius komponerede direkte til. I 1925 bestilte Det Kongelige Teater den finske komponist til at skrive scenemusik til en nyopsætning af Shakespeares "Stormen", der skulle have premiere i København det følgende år ... "Stormen" er det sidste og største værk, som Sibelius skrev for teatret, og det viser hans særlige evne til at skildre karakterer og psykologiske temperamenter i musiken og ofte med enkle midler"

"Maybe the tumultuous opening storm music could have done with a slightly more urgent tempo from the conductor Okko Kamu. The five vocal soloists are all strongly cast, with an especially generous-voiced Juno (Kari Dahl Nielsen) in the Act IV mask scene ... and there is some fine orchestral playing in a score full of memorable sonorous imagery"

"This is welcome indeed: the first commercial recording of non-operatic repertoire from the world's oldest orchestra for nearly 20 years ... What we hear is - as far as known - the actual music played at the 1925 Copenhagen premiere, in the same order ... There's a real advantage in hearing Hanne Fischer as Ariel singing in the original Danish ... Kamu maintains his sense of patience in the Overture, with its proto-spectral overtone chords ... With fine notes from Valdemar Lønsted, this can only be recommended"

Vurdering: 3/5