Browse: Building a Library, January 2019

Dynamic ranges are wide, with Ravel's crescendos not underplayed in any mistaken attempt at classicism, and rubatos are applied with tactful expressivity. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Zehetmair Quartet's coupling focuses the music's alternating wildness and fragility with altogether unique perception. Theirs is an agitated, combustible and loving view of Schumann, a credible... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Hamelin scampers and thunders by turns but not once does he upstage the string-players. That this disc simply gets better and better on repeated listening is ample recommendation. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…

Frang heralds one of the freshest and most vital accounts of this familiar and frequently recorded work [the Sibelius concerto] in recent years. On display from the off is a vivid sense of intellectual... — Michael Quinn, bbc.co.uk, 16th February 2010 More…

in Alan Curtis's scrupulously detailed performance, Joyce diDonato's gleaming legato and coloratura are upstaged by the elegance of Karina Gauvin's Ginevra. While diDonato offers recklessly inventive... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The opening account of Schumann’s best known quartet, Op 41 No 3 in A minor, gives a good sense of the warmth and immediacy of Quartet Gerhard’s playing, but it’s Berg’s Lyric Suite that shows... — The Guardian, 5th October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The playing by Quatuor Hermès intelligently illuminates the contrast of Ravel’s suave piquancy with Debussy’s riper, more rounded sounds, while Dutilleux’s sublimely suggestive Ainsi la nuit... — Sunday Times, 8th April 2018 More…