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With this disc, Freddy Kempf shoots straight into the top ten of Prokofiev interpreters...[He] keeps it all spruce and plays it relatively straight...The big Rachmaninov tune in the finale [of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

this rewarding new release is a reminder of [Hindemith's] continued close affinity with the [viola]...Virtuosity is not so much the music's aim as expressivity, yet Zimmermann plays with brilliance... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I found the works on this disc an exciting discovery, and the performances are sui generis: Storgårds, Bezaly, and the musicians of the Tapiola Sinfonietta are all in top form. Sound quality... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

Gringolts brings together the Baroque and the Modern in this carefully curated recording, with an emphasis on the latter. Brice Pauset’s 2008 Kontrapartita, which intersperses Bach’s Partitas,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Over-subscribed as it may well be, there’s always room in the Mozart discography for new recordings of this stature...Astute performances, rigorous musical integrity and exceptional sound –... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

few can match Sampson’s overall sense of exuberant joy in these wonderful songs...The Tapiola Sinfonietta under Pascal Rophé are equally spirited, with shimmering strings and plenty of woodwind... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Superb performances by Elina Vähälä and Jonathan Roozeman confirm the idiomatic nature of Aho’s writing (having tried out the solo parts himself), and Olari Elts secures a committed response... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

With the eminent Brahms interpreter Stephen Hough, Collins brings special musical insights to these two late works. Notably, they triumphantly solve the interpretative conundrums posed by some... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Spruce, cleansounding, finely articulated with sparing use of vibrato – this is definitely modern Beethoven. It’s hard to imagine anything less like the plush, expressively orotund Amadeus Quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…