BR Klassik

Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Score, performance, recording: all as exhilarating as a work for eight horns and orchestra has any right to be. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…

Pärt’s bigboned Miserere sees the Estonian composer at his most devastatingly powerful. It is excellently performed here, as are the shorter, but by no means insignificant, other works on the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jansons adopts...an approach which takes into consideration the historically informed approach of the last 30 years, but is still aware of what performances were like in the great German tradition...If... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Bavarian Radio Choir gives authoritative accounts of these subtly complex works, skilfully marshalled by conductor Peter Dijkstra and smartly captured in this impressive live recording. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Three visceral, experimental works by the brilliant British composer Rebecca Saunders are performed live, with every instrument pushed to its limit. A real experiment with textures and timbres. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

it’s one of Rihm’s greatest achievements, an unstoppable, ever-renewing stream of invention that seems to follow its own satisfying logic. It’s also phenomenally difficult to play, though you’d... — The Guardian, 3rd March 2022 More…

Andre’s is a music devoid of feature yet beautiful for all that. The Arditti Quartet’s interpretation is as perspicuous as always. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021 More…

One can hardly imagine these three pieces...put together with more coherence and authority than in this version by Mariss Jansons. — Choir & Organ, September 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…