Wergo

It’s hard to imagine finer performances than we get here, and the BBC recording captures everything well. Strongly recommended for Henze fans, and for those who aren’t. — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

The wider influence of these pieces has yet to be fully considered…Whether or not at least some of them could yet enter the standard repertoire, the intrinsic qualities as music can no longer... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…

All the performances here, across a span of four different years and three venues, are first-rate, as is the recorded sound. — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

The performance of the Oratorium is breathtaking. I was overwhelmed by the precision the composer brings to the playing of this remarkably complex work. All of the performers seem to be in one... — Fanfare, May/June 2020 More…

The trio admirably presenting itself here is the unusual combination of piano (Nicolas Hodges), sax (Marcus Weiss) and percussion (Christian Dierstein), and the stylistic orientation is European... — Sunday Times, 7th May 2018 More…

Though couched in a complex style and flaunting intellectual subtexts (its cover reproducing a Gerhard Richter abstract), these works — the others being Stephan Winkler’s Von der Gewissensnot... — Sunday Times, 14th July 2019 More…

As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

Riskily static at one extreme, turbulently volatile at the other, the whole work has an authentically awestruck character and an infectious lack of inhibition that Eötvös usefully preserves... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…