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In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

Hannigan’s luminous voice perfectly suits this music. She conveys the uneasy, almost unhinged feel of the fin de siècle not only in her lyric singing, but also in her crooning, swopping, sliding,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, More…

This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The hero is Edward Gardner, under whose wonderfully flexible beat this hyper-Romantic music positively breathes in long lyrical phrases and paragraphs. Nor are the excitements lacking: the coda... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, More…

This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

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, More…

Uchida's distinctive musical personality and outstanding technique make her Schoenberg, Berg and Webern well worth hearing, however many other version of these works you have in your collection.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Accompaniment to a Film Scene...sounds less nightmarish, and a lot more beautiful than in any previous version. In general, Rattle's Schoenberg is more the voluptuous late Romantic than the bogeyman... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, More…