SACD, Pentatone (label)

Her voice is both pure and full-bodied, with an extensive range in terms of both tessitura and characterisation, allowing her to do justice to the many different moods showcased on this recording,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

His Violin Concerto’s three movements...typify his delight in bringing extremes of expression within often terrifyingly close proximity, and is thrillingly realised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

A mezzo can bring so many colours to the expression, and in that respect Alice Coote matches the previously unsurpassable challenge of Janet Baker with Barbirolli. There’s even a plus: the height,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It takes a bold composer to set such a story and John Corigliano is more than up to the task…Corigliano gives a nod to operatic tradition with lush moments in 'Hush, darling: hush', expertly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018More…

There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019More…

It is carefully done, and due attention is paid to Weber’s inventive score, but the result is frankly pedestrian…There’s good singing here, led by Lise Davidsen’s sweet-toned Agathe, who sings... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

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 2018More…