Orfeo

This performance...reveals Baiba Skride as the complete violinist, with an exceptionally precise, reliable technique, splendid tone and presence, and discerning musicianship, who makes the quietest... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

The Concerto funebre (1939, rev 1959) has fared better on disc than any other Hartmann work… Its powerful inner message of grief and protest at then encroachment of tyranny across Europe… gives... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…

The Walton… is distinctive, not least because the Oslo Philharmonic under Previn is on cracking form. This subtly playful, sun-lit work is fiendishly difficult and requires just the sort of... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions…this is a species of conducting you will seek out in vain today, the set is the perfect... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Ott negotiates all the considerable technical hurdles of the Weinberg with aplomb and receives committed support from the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Dirk Kaftan. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Brahms] is impressive, offering a relatively straightforward and unmannered interpretation. Steinbacher possess as beautifully warm, burnished tone and performs almost flawlessly throughout.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…