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

Throughout the slow movement, the playing of the solo lines is captivating…The Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg provide both relaxation and a strong sense of purposeful energy…Excellently recorded,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, More…

Weilerstein plays across the bar lines, stressing the fluidity and intimacy of the composer’s lyrical lines. — Financial Times, 31st May 2014 More…

Barton seems now to be the equal of any dramatic mezzo before the public. The great element which has enabled her rise to stardom is, of course, her voice-large, rich, fully controlled...These... — American Record Guide More…

They bring a depth and richness of warm colours to a score still insufficiently appreciated…Bělohlávek is the authoritative interpreter leading his forces through the piece with confidence and,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, More…

Hough joins forces with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons for a robust, grand reading that nonetheless leaves room for lyricism and introspection…[but it's in the Dvorak]... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, More…

John Storgards and the Helsinki Philharmonic provide attentive and flexible accompaniment, and Tetzlaff’s tone throughout is unfailingly beautiful…this well recorded account will appeal to those... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, More…

Their attention to detail produces constantly arresting textures and the recorded balance allows the all-important viola lines full prominence…Their performance of Dvořák’s last string quartet…is... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, More…

[Enrico Pace is] a marvellously attentive but far from self-effacing accompanist…[and] I doubt if there is more than a handful of violinists alive who can match Kavakos in the tonal variety,... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

The new group have the idiom off to a T, with crystal-clear diction, just the right balance of wit and sentiment and, most of all, the ability to move in and out of the group texture absolutely... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 14th April 2014 More…