BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Signum SIGCD195
Release date: June 2010 

“Both composers benefit from Fischer’s trademark refinement. His Petrushka, notably beautiful, is graciously touching rather than violent or eruptive, and the clean-textured, superbly detailed playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reminds us just how startlingly original Stravinsky’s sonorities are.” The Guardian ****

“Responding to Stravinsky’s macabre scenario of a fairground puppet springing to life, Thierry Fischer’s re-imagining of the orchestra as a mechanical pianola or orchestrion is a winning strategy.” Classic FM Magazine ****

“Natural balances spotlight Fischer’s hard work with textures, and how well he conjures the orchestral harmonica…The flecks of light over Liadov’s Enchanted Lake are nicely caught, too” BBC Music Magazine ****