BR Klassik

Far from being easy listening, Ich tanze is a hugely thought-provoking album. The sound recording is impeccable, and the superb program notes make a case for the music’s quality without excusing... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2023 More…

The first 'nightmusic'… benefits from the hard work of Jansons the soundmaster, with downward plunges phenomenally clear and luminous woodwind trilling… the Rondo-Finale make [Mahler's] the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bonitatibus is clearly at ease in the four languages she uses here, bringing a genuine felling for tragedy to Romeo's 'Deh! Tu bell'anima' from Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi and appreciable... — Opera, June 2018 More…

What is special is the care [Jansons] the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the engineers have taken with the quieter music: those haunting, shadowy transitions in the Andante; those remote,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a vividly miked Mahler Second, immaculately stage-managed and meticulously filled with local colour, also one that doesn’t come close to painting the symphony’s bigger picture…Grotesque... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

[The performances] demonstrate vividly how protean Rihm’s music can be, and are a reminder of how, throughout his career, his music has always been in a dialogue with the past, and of how he... — The Guardian, 3rd March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Though scarcely slower than [Jansons’s] earlier reading, and recorded in an ambience combining spaciousness with detailed clarity, the opening has mystery enough. But more striking is how Jansons’s... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…