Browse: Chamber, Pärt (composer)

Capuçon throws down the gauntlet with a searingly intense performance of Tabula rasa (1977). The playing is impeccably controlled yet fiercely expressive…Throughout the album, Capuçon reveals... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Whether in the simple lyricism of Vater Unser or the more angular Es sang vor langen Jahren, Scholl commands attention. Most remarkable are the quirky plodding of My Heart ’s in the Highlands... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Underpinning lovely playing, it’s the performers’ sensitivity to Part’s mathematically-inspired structures that lends real eloquence to his soundworld. The sense of proportion in tempo, phrase... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Steinbacher weaves in and out of Bach’s contrapuntal textures, occasionally reducing her tone to a radiant pianissimo to allow the orchestral lines through...[In Fratres] she demonstrates the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Taken at face value, the order and selection of works seems entirely random…However, the eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces.... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

An admirable and enterprising collection. In the two works for violin and piano, Tasmin Little holds the listener's attention by the intensity of her commitment and the powerful projection of... — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

The Lark Ascending is beautifully played, with pure, unforced tone, and in the unmeasured passages Benedetti imaginatively suggests the bird's unfettered, unpredictable flight. By contrast,... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…

Dalene and Hadland make an excellent duo – equal partners who bounce ideas off one another with oodles of vitality. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…