Onyx

There is much to enjoy in Boesch's dramatic, intensely "lived" performances, and in the imaginative playing of Malcolm Martineau (ultra-sensitive in Schumann's secretive piano postludes). — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…

There is much that is extremely beautiful here … the harmonisations are very effective and Eijsackers delivers them with commendable poise and discretion. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The undoubted jewel on the disc is the performance of the Dutilleux concerto, which is in every way outstanding…Elschenbroich demonstrates virtuosity and musicianship of a high order — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The young German virtuoso…brings crisp brilliance to its outer movements and plays the unusual 5/4 Larghetto with freedom. In naturally recorded sound, he shows how radiant textures in the Minuetto... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The main interest of this disc lies in the Czerny pieces. Very few of his thousand plus piano works are played today, and the Rode variations do indeed reflect a felicitous talent, with their... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

it's thrilling to find a recording that shines a light into [the Cello Symphony's] aqueous depths: here is a reading of wonderful precision, colour and vitality...[Wispelwey] brings an innate... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the boisterously confident Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic cuts another lively swathe through colourful 20th-century repertoire...[In the Bartok] The Turkish players and their Viennese conductor... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Schwanewilms holds Schoenberg's melody, in his early Op. 2 songs, like the finest silken thread. Her faultless legato realises to perfection the echoes of inner rhyme and assonance within the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…