ica classics

Barbirolli's Haydn from 1969 is very much of its time, and not without some fine qualities. One can sense the affection in which the conductor held this work...The Symphonie fantastique finds... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A sense of delight permeates his performance of the Ravel waltzes; he digs into the scrunchy textures and lets the composer's lime-and-soda harmonies fizz and gleam...Shame about the sound quality,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is an astounding disc. It contains some of the greatest piano playing I have ever heard, and the most profound interpretation of what is, for me, Beethoven's greatest piano work, the Hammerklavier... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is not the spick and span, vibrato-lite Mahler somewhat in vogue today...yet something special is going on, especially when the stick is discarded for much of the long-breathed, old-world,... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

If not every note is in place, [Du Pré] displays that electrifying rhythmic instinct that characterises her best performances, and long-breathed melodies are sung with utter naturalness…This... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

His concert begins with Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in B flat major from the D.935 set. There is such facility and tonal lustre here, and a dappled, songful lightness propelled by the deftest of... — MusicWeb International, August 2012 More…

Tebaldi's heady tone is equal to every one of the role's musical demands, while dramatically she proves an engaged and potent heroine...[Gobbi's Scarpia] as always is dramatically thrilling;... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

unshowy, massively intelligent accounts...whose structures are architecturally drawn and finely delineated, with wonderful tone-quality in the slow movements. More physical, less spiritual than... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Jacoby’s] playing is muscular and blends well with the Academy and Marriner, who have this music in their blood and play with their trademark urbanity and flexibility virtually throughout — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…