Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008)

The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Hila Plitmann, with equal experience in opera, film and musical theatre, has exactly the right kind of natural, microphone-friendly delivery… — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

When…Evgeny Kissin recorded his first Prokofiev concertos, he shied away from the insane challenges of the Second. Here… he surmounts these very much on his own terms… revealing the strong... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The slow movements of both the Symphony in Three Movements and the Symphony in C are beautifully done. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

In No 1 (1951), the Pacifica find a near-perfect balance between the driving intensity of the Arditti and portentous grandeur of the Juilliard. In No 5 (1995) they, like the Arditti make the... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2008More…

Jean Belmont Ford's cycle Electa is a real discovery, performed with a naturalness and ease that carries one unerringly through very unfamiliar musical territory. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

With Haitink in charge of the Shostakovich, there can be no threat of exaggeration or distortion, no need to whip up a greater frenzy than the composer plotted. No conductor can make this long... — Financial TimesMore…