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This disc, devoted exclusively to Kurtág's music for string quartet, is of great significance, and both performance and recording are equal to the enterprise. The Keller Quartet have secure... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Heinz Holliger repeatedly explores the fragile boundaries between creativity and madness… Gesänge der Frühe, from 1987… is a strange hybrid of documentary an gradiloquent oratorio, whose carefully... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jarrett's passagework [in the Barber] has a glittering edge, and he gives the music an exhilaratingly improvisatory feel. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 2 out of 5 stars More…

a distinguished instalment in an outstanding cycle. — The Observer More…

Over the immanent, limpid voices Garbarek improvises equally immaculate counter-melodies. His contributions tend to be somewhat predictable, more decoration than improvisation in the fullest... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jarrett’s Bach is known for its cool temperature, restrained expression, even a slightly puritan approach. All of that is true here; what is more noteworthy is the clarity of his tone and voicing.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

…some soothing music-making - the improvised pieces are gentle and undemanding on the listener - broken up occasionally by the more forcefully active and virtuoso music of the sonatas, which... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…

The crowning glory in this fifth volume of András Schiff's resonantly recorded, chronological survey of the Beethoven sonatas is his urgently propelled Waldstein Sonata. Schiff clearly views... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…