SACD, Ravel (composer)

It’s ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel’s expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form’s musical language. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The finale [of the Pounds] projects a mood of hard-won defiance, and the symphony as a whole is certainly worth experiencing – especially in a performance as scrupulously prepared and committed... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Dalene and Hadland make an excellent duo – equal partners who bounce ideas off one another with oodles of vitality. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rysanov has previously demonstrated that there is far more to the instrument than Romantic brooding, but this disc finds him exploring that cliche...and the playing is utterly sublime, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It seems to me that the Vienna Piano Trio, recorded in a generous but not too cloudy acoustic, capture the work’s character well: their performance has a natural flow which yet conveys its musical... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Tailleferre’s String Quartet may not measure up to its companions here in quality, but even so it’s interesting to hear how, at the end of World War I, she was absorbing Satie’s influence…Its... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…