BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015

Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014More…

among the best Gerontius performances on record. Davis resists the temptation to make the work sound like a flabby, imitation Parsifal and the results are outstandingly convincing...[Skelton]... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

everyone who cares about singing should promote it immediately to the top of their letters to Santa. Creamy, sumptuous, almost flawless - every adjective may be a cliché, but how else to describe... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Melnikov works wonders with his 1828 Graff piano, managing to make it less clattery and more piano-like than in most other fortepiano recordings. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Esfahani's at his most expressive in the slow movements...This, his first solo disc, provides a particularly welcome introduction onto the world stage for an artist matching, in expression CPE... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Chin is one of the best contemporary exponents of purely instrumental music drama, and these concertos provide absorbing listening...The music inevitably acquires a ritualistic aura but there... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014More…

an effortlessly musical performance, helped by the immaculate playing of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. And, as in the first disc of the series, Andsnes's attention to orchestral detail while... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

One of the pleasures of these splendid performances is the rapport between the soloist/conductor and his musicians. They play as one. Another is the clarity of texture and the variety and sensitivity... — Sunday Times, 18th January 2015More…