Browse: SACD, Berg (composer)

Berg’s shimmering, often Mahlerian soundscapes are lovingly rendered by Tilson Thomas. Shaham brings tonal beauty and power to the sublime Concerto, while Phillips’s voice is radiant in the Seven... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty of... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Haefliger’s rich and varied tonal colouring provides tremendous music rewards in the Berg…The coruscating flourishes in the Liszt are vividly despatched…A good deal of the Beethoven is really... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Tilling is on ravishing form in this beautifully paced album of Romantic and Expressionist songs; the balance between Tilling and Paul Ravinius’s sensitive playing is nigh-on perfect. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Stefan Soltesz exercises impressive control over his excellent Essen team, and singer Julia Bauer also manages a welcome touch of coolness in the "Lied der Lulu"...The live performance of the... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These two scores by master and pupil make an absorbing programme...Dabringhaus und Grimm's finely balanced recording captures a wealth of textural subtleties while not for a moment damping down... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

Performances by the cool-voiced Julia Kleiter and pianist Michael Gees tend to have a leavening effect of the music. The sound quality (aided by a reverberant acoustic) is uniformly radiant,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

The ecstatic, tonality-bending music of the Norwegian Fartein Valen sits well with ethereal Webern plus better-known Messiaen, a challenge met by this fine choir — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…