"Recording of the month: Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of these performances is the sheer variety of colours and timbres Robin Ticciati manages to extract from the outstanding strings of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ... Throughout each work, Ticciati projects strongly defined phrase characterisation, coupled with a great sense of forward momentum ... Exciting, revelatory performances that make you listen afresh to this wonderful life-enhancing music"

"There is nothing here that sounds like bog-standard Brahms, nothing that hasn't been meticulously thought through, barely a bar that doesn't say something. If that sounds exhausting to listen to, it's not; Ticciati's care for keeping the music airborne, coupled with the lucent transparency of the playing, mean that the longest movements fly by ... This release captures the strength of their connection and preserves it at its peak"

"Dirigent og orkester har krympet de så mægtige symfonier af Johannes Brahms til forvokset kammerstørrelse. Og i den forvandling har de fået et drev, man ikke lige bliver færdig med. Robin Ticciati må virkelig dele vandene med sit nye album ... 'Rå, romantisk feber' kalder han sit klangideal. Resultatet er markant. Uden symfonisk bredde bliver det melodierne, rytme og de korte aftræk, der bærer musikken frem. Alle markeringer står knivskarpt i lydbilledet"

"Ticciati's recording is lean and dazzlingly tranparent ... Impressive, too, is the orchestra's ability to render these details with such a fine balance of precision and expressive brio ... The woodwinds are marvellously characterful ... There's much to admire in the recordings beyond the stellar playing of the SCO and Linn's state-of-the-art engineering. Ticciati comes to these symphonies with a veritable flood of fresh ideas. Admittedly, not all are equally convincing, but there's hardly a dull note, either"