Browse: Ondine (label)

Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Tetzlaff's approach to Shostakovich's Violin Concertos is rather different from that of their dedicatee, David Oistrakh...Yet I find Tetzlaff's interpretation [of No. 1] no less riveting...Storgårds... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Merikanto's Second and Third Piano Concertos (from 1937-8 and 1955 respectively) are typical of his later output – contrapuntally inventive and impressionistic in scoring. Both have an engaging... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Anadyomene (1968) suggests a Turner canvas recast in sound. It opens restlessly among undulating pastels, the tone darkens further, there are brief comments from flute and bass clarinet, the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The words are always paramount and they’re delivered here with almost visionary clarity by the Latvian Choir… This is a more sombre work but shot through with intimations of grace and consolation. — Choir & Organ, January 2023 More…

The intensity of Hakola's response to the music compels attention through every bar of the [central] movement...The Oulu Symphony Orchestra are on fine form throughout and Santtu-Matias Rouvali... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…