Onyx

astonishing sophistication — BBC Music Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Percan is an extremely capable violinist. Playing a modern Baroque-style instrument by Johannes Loescher, he makes a fine, bright, ringing tone, and many of the quicker movements sound brilliant... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 More…

These four fine players are consistently musical in their approach and there is nothing outlandish or suspect about their interpretations. And therein perhaps lies their weakness, for it's precisely... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 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…

the standout piece here is Borodin's String Quartet No 1...the scherzo, with its blend of agitated, feathery bow-work and stalking pizzicato, is especially impressive. — The Independent, 23rd April 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

[In the Cello Sonata] Elschenbroich and Limonov plot a daringly extreme course, their first movement more tautly conceived, the central scherzo a positive whirlwind. The finale goes to the other... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2017 More…

Poètes du Piano is the perfect description for this beautifully sequenced selection of Romantic piano pieces, a series of exquisite miniatures by the likes of Chopin, Ravel, Fauré and Poulenc,... — The Independent, 18th June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It's good to hear four quite different tenors responding to the song-cycles written for Peter Pears, and recreating each one in a totally distinctive way. Allan Clayton's feisty tenor takes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…