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Szymanowski’s substantial Violin Sonata is the earliest work on this new release featuring his music for violin and piano, and receives the most satisfying performance here. Sueye Park and Roland... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is music for which the Escher’s players clearly have a special flair. It’s music that fits perfectly the ensemble’s technical strengths, its tonal profile, and its interpretive point of... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2022 More…

Ari-Pekka Mäenpää, who workshopped the score with Aho, plays it heroically but it’s difficult not to conclude that these lumbering instruments aren’t charismatic enough to headline a half-hour... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

not only are the performances unfailingly stylish and fiery, they’re also marvellously detailed in tone, texture and harmonic colour. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

From 1998 to 2002 Sally Beamish enjoyed a four-year dual residency with the Swedish and Scottish chamber orchestras. The compositional results included this trio of orchestral works, which are... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... — The Observer, 22nd July 2012 More…

The all-male, one-to-a-part treatment adopted here is rare, not to say unique…New York Polyphony’s approach is almost intimate, its details articulated from within…the blend and unanimity of... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…