CD, Webern (composer)

Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

All the pieces on this final instalment of the ‘Prism’ series stand on a threshold, and in this Op 135 Beethoven does so with the vitality and humour of the Diabelli Variations. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

[Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie] calls for considerable virtuosity from each of its 15 solo players, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under Heinz Holliger acquits itself very well...Holliger... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A suitably bleak performance of this harrowing piece for narrator, male-voice choir, and orchestra. Claudio Abbado conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, and Gottfried Hornik narrates. It took me... — James Longstaffe, Presto Music, August 2014 More…

There’s much in this programme of post-concert bonbons to delight, and the Arioso Quartet are certainly capable and polished. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023 More…

a great recital, like the one captured on this mesmerizing disc by the immensely talented pianist Gilles Vonsattel, is more than the sum of its parts. With intelligence and imagination he traces... — New York Times, 25th November 2015 More…