Browse: Presto Recordings of the Year, Janáček (composer)

This excellently recorded performance is strikingly direct. The ebb and flow of the drama is brilliantly captured. Nicky Spence’s tenor is flexible across a huge range…Drake’s accompaniment is... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, More…

[Bělohlávek] could get under the skin of Janacek’s music, drawing out its folk roots and speech rhythms, its soul-searching and truthfulness, its sheer humanity. The main work here is the Glagolitic... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

Hamelin has already made several fine recordings of Schumann's piano music, focusing on big virtuoso pieces. He proves to be equally adept at exploring the more intimate side of the composer's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, More…

we have a fine interpreter of Janáček and a distinguished orchestra...Orchestral ensemble is good though not always the intonation. still, the remaining movements are more compelling, with vivid... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, More…

Leader Milina Mandozzi does well to show the way through this mysterious, powerful work [The Fiddler's Child]...These must be difficult works to prepare and indeed to record; both playing and... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

There is much to admire here from the excellent Jerusalem Quartet. In Smetana's First Quartet there is the fine opening viola melody...The slow movements of the Janacek quartets are also carefully... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…