ECM

Few vocalists if any could match this group for their tuning. In works such as Dolcissima mia vita) with its chromatic ending and its flickering lines at the word 'fire'), the effect is superbly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The accounts are intimate and subtly coloured, the Hilliards' distinctive sound still unsullied, four decades on.The singers' faultless clarity of diction, highlighted by the close recording... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

All are delivered with exemplary drive and luminosity: the Signum Quartett respond vividly to the changing textures of Tüür’s imagined Lost Prayers, while Florian Donderer (violin) and Tanja... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even in the hairiest passages of the Hammerklavier Sonata Op 106, Schiff's poise never deserts him, while the textural clarity, especially of the inner lines, is always a delight. — The Guardian, 31st October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer was the first homegrown Kapellmeister to be appointed at the Hapsburg Court in Vienna in 1679, following generations of Italians hired for their oltremontani flair... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Just as Schnittke's First Symphony picks up the threads from Shostakovich's last, so his Piano Quintet feels like the natural successor to Shostakovich's last string quartet; that makes ECM's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…