Berg

Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

This is an outstanding performance of Berg's Lyric Suite. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

assurance and engagement are fully evident here, and it's not just in the response to the variety of tone and timbre asked for, but in the care over intonation - always a potential problem in... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Perlman's account of the Berg Violin Concerto with the Boston orchestra under Ozawa has long occupied a respected place in the catalogue. The original reviewer in Gramophone in March 1980 was... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Heath Quartet convey the [Schoenberg’s] often intimate intensity with great sensitivity, and Carolyn Sampson’s warm lyricism is ideal both in the forward-looking finale, and in the slow... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…