BIS

…Suzuki… often a little slower than others, in one case, the B flat prelude, surprisingly so. There's plenty of energy in his playing elsewhere though - the D major prelude is impressive, as... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Thomas Zehetmair and the Musikkollegium Winterthur give virtuoso performances of this demanding music throughout, and a better rendition of it is beyond my ability to imagine. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Ballads predominate, providing ample scope for embellishment...this disc is less about jazz's sound of surprise than sheer delight in dazzlement. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The textural smoothness works well in the outer Nocturnes (especially in “Sirènes,” where the Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Europe shares the same silkiness), while the central “Fétes” lacks... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

[Gander] As in the Ives, technical challenges are formidable but dispatched with stunning ease and equal clarity. It could be that the cartilage connecting these works composed a century apart... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Rysanov has previously demonstrated that there is far more to the instrument than Romantic brooding, but this disc finds him exploring that cliche...and the playing is utterly sublime, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[James Rutherford] has at his disposal a wonderfully healthy and rounded bass-baritone voice…and his German is impeccable…the cycle has a slow-burn cumulative power, and if Rutherford’s tone... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Dissonant and febrile, Pettersson’s Concerto for Violin and String Quartet is not easy to love – but gripping on its own terms, and played here with great commitment. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

By keeping a firm grip on the first three movements, Osmo Vänskä ensures that the cast and increasingly frantic finale, with its hammer-blows of Fate, really does come over as climactic, culminating... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…