Zigzag

Stern's performances are all about intimacy: intimacy of sound, manifested in a close, dry (and sometimes rather unlovely) recording offering sharp textural clarity and emphasising the tightness... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 More…

many of the songs are given a definite sense of live performance with a few theatrical effects thrown in: sighs, gasps and laughs, for example. It all adds to the fun. — MusicWeb International, 26th June 2014 More…

If you prefer Bach on the piano served up in heaping Romantic portions, accompanied by dollops of creamy tone, tapered phrases and languishing tenutos, Edna Stern's ravishing pianism will turn... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played - using a clarinet from 1830 and a Bechstein from 1870 - but most naturally recorded too. Every work here is a small-scale... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

You may disagree with details of his performances, but there's no mistaking his intelligence, or the mastery of his pianism...These rewarding and thought-provoking performances have been very... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The title only hints at the disc's riches: it is a veritable 'art gallery' in sound. Marianne Muller and her continuo colleagues in the Ensemble Spirale explore the ways in which 17th- and 18th-century... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…