Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017)

Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Honeck’s Shostakovich sounds magnificent. From intense pianissimos to the shrieking upper register and full bass thwack of a grand peroration – which Honeck takes surprisingly at face value... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This live, 2013 concert performance by the Houston Symphony, under their then outging musical director Hans Graf, benefits from a stellar cast. Much is paid to orchestral detail, and Berg’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, 3 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 starsMore…

The Fifth Century is signature Bryars but no less affecting for its familiar soundworld...The text is fascinating...but it is equally possible to allow the words to wash over you entirely and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This must have been an enthralling concert. It’s almost impossible to imagine Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in a string orchestral arrangement better played, with Kopatchinskaja a dynamic... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…