Browse: SACD, Berg (composer)

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, More…

…conductors as well as listeners can be distracted by the high-gloss surfaces of Berg's orchestration, especially in the Lulu Suite, but Gatti always draws the ear inwards, past smoochy saxophone... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 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, 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…

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…

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, More…

Stalwarts of the catalogue. The recordings sometimes feel artificially balanced, but Stern's muscular playing is well-served, and he digs deep in both concertos. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, More…