Browse: Instrumental, Weiss, S (composer)

By far the finest track here is his transcription of the Chaconne from Bach’s Second Partita for Violin, where the purity of the line and the implied harmonic textures transfer from bowed strings... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one understands... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bream's sampler shows his passionate best. The (complete) Aranjuez Concerto is unsurpassed; Falla's Miller's Dance blazes; 'impossible' Rodrigo dazzles. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Musicians of David Russell's taste and experience are like connoisseurs...What you lose in reduction and transposition, you gain in tone colour, dynamic control and an intimacy that encourages... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 More…

His [Konrad Junghänel] performances are rich in expressive weight, the resonant depth of his playing being well captured in St Stephanuskerk, Melsen … He is very much a measured, powerfully intense... — MusicWeb International, 27th July 2015 More…

A thoughtful intelligence and quiet eloquence underpin this crop of early recordings by Cantus Cölln’s founding director. Introspective Piccinini steals the disc devoted to Italy. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…