Onyx

…there are certainly some five-star performances here - and Strauss's relatively unfamiliar 'Glückes genug' hints that she may make an Arabella of ideal candour and dignity. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pascal Rogé heads up this thoughtful disc of French trios. He has described his gods as Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, with Poulenc, Debussy and Satie as his friends. And so, too, are Ravel and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

These three players would seem to view the trios primarily as inward works, a conversation between friends...Thus these performances are most effective in the less extrovert parts of the music. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…

Everything is crisply articulated and thoroughly thought through…The Grosse Fuge maintains momentum, winding tighter and tighter; then its final section begins so softly it’s almost playful,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

An excellent programme of 20th-century pieces for two pianos from this impressive duo of sisters. The lively textures and contrasts bound to life, with grit and delicacy. Strong support from... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Apekisheva certainly takes nothing for granted and brings several individual touches to Pictures...As a whole, though, Apekisheva's interpretation comes across as over-calculating and deliberate...Generally... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

a realisation of unrivalled clarity and balance, closely observed by the microphones. When Karabits spoke to the audience prior to a performance at the Lighthouse Poole, he made much of the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

Intellect is central: I've never heard so much revelatory detail in Prokofiev's triptych of dark and painful masterpieces. Kozhukhin has a way of bringing out the detail of the inner parts...that... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…