Ondine

Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven cycle gets better with each new instalment and nearly everything here is a keeper…I look forward to the fifth and final volume. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Korhonen's phrasing and articulation are intelligent and musical, and the execution is clean and crisp. Sometimes the downstroke of the bow is imitated...at other times...a more flowing, guitaristic... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 More…

This Finnish quartet Meta4 play with keyhole clarity and purpose — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Hakkila is a gifted player, alert to the nuance and quicksilver changes of Haydn’s mercurial style. Nothing is forced but no eccentricity is left behind, either. Her playing is technically accomplished... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020 More…

Isokoski begins with disarming lightness of touch...It's easy to forget that, at its core, this is a rich, almost heroic voice, modulating its way with seeming effortlessness through the bigger... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this, the second volume from Ondine, focuses on superb performances by the Latvian Radio Choir of the secular side of his trance-inducing, largely homophonic four-part compositions, regarded... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Storgårds conducts atmospherically. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jumppanen is prodigiously gifted, and he provides deeply felt accounts of the slow movements...but [his] departures from the script elsewhere won't be to everyone's taste. Jumppanen offers an... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…