Browse: Stravinsky - Divertimento (symphonic suite from Le Baiser de la Fée)

With exemplary control of orchestral balance, clarity of texture and a capacity to draw a fabulous array of colours from the music, these performances are guaranteed to keep the listener riveted... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In the opening phrases of the Schubert, Benjamin Beilman is unashamedly Romantic, with vibrato used throughout, discreet portamentos and a seamless legatos…there’s no doubting the technical accomplishment... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Adès's touch with the piano parts is at once live-wire and beautifully stylish, with Marwood matching this flair for deftly characterised light and shade. The Pulcinella suite and Divertimento... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Roth finds a silvery sweetness for the more lyrical sections of the Stravinsky, an earthy fullness for the Brahms and skitters through the harmonics and left-hand pizzicato passages of the Wieniawski... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Stylistically, Strauss's lyrical Op 18 (1887) sits poised somewhere between Brahms's chivalrous song cycle Die schöne Magelone and Strauss's own Don Juan of the following year.
The finale is... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

It's not just Ray Chen's superb technique, but his sense of pacing in the music that's so striking: there's always time for the music to unfold, even at speed...Both he and Timothy Young are... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…