Naxos

These period-instrument performances are characterized by pellucidity, joie d'vivre, and tight ensemble. Fresh and erudite, poised and vibrant, the performers have mastered the balance of scholarship... — American Record Guide, July/August 2001 More…

Throughout these cycles, Heggie reveals an adept handling of the voice-and-piano medium - for all that the vocal line could have benefited from more expressive variety...Yet it would be wrong... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Here is another, indeed the next-to-last, release in the complete Bruckner Symphony edition conducted by the late Georg Tintner. Again avoiding the extremes of imperial grandeur or deeply religious... — Fanfare, July/August 2000 More…

…this is lean music with no wasted notes, and it’s strikingly performed, with concentration in the playing and detail in the recording. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Jun Märkl persuades his orchestra to extremes of vulgarity and tenderness, which is as it should be in the extraordinary Images. They also catch the ambivalence of mood that marks these pieces...there... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Albert Sammons' 1929 account of Elgar's Violin Concerto with Sir Henry Wood and the New Queen's Hall Orchestra remains the finest version ever made, outstripping even the legendary Menuhin/Elgar... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…