Browse: Ondine (label)

The performances by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra are exemplary, the mood benign and unhurried to match the music, and every player of every unusually featured instrument...calmly taking their... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 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…

Karen Vourc'h...is an eloquent advocate of the heigtened arioso, flexing into and out of speech...[in Terra Memoria] Marko Letonja controls Saariaho's single arc of quizzical and querulous transformations... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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…

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…