Stravinsky - Pastorale

Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Wistful is not a word one expects to use to describe a composition of Stravinsky but the Pastorale which opens this collection has just that kind of charm. Written originally as a vocal piece... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The performances are perfectly poised, the recording faultless. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

Extremely enjoyable – each re-listening only heightens my pleasure in the programme and all the performances – and extremely valuable in its illumination of an important subsidiary aspect of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

When not aiming at ferocity, Dizdari's tone is notably rich and expressive - especially in the Part, played with a very modest degree of slowish vibrato. The Hungarian Dances are given with... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…