Browse: Ondine (label)

If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I find this orchestra's response is wanting in the real atmospheric depths so effortlessly encompassed in an all-Russian performance like any of Mravinsky's or Gergiev's with the Kirov Orchestra. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano concertos? Well, here is a disc that akes all those qualities to the... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…

Amplified cello and orchestra sounds iffy on paper, but in practice there’s something rather striking about this rock-meets-classical concerto. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the beauty of the music is hardly disputable. Some commentators find his current style too simplistic, neo-Romantic and sentimental… but even they must acknowledge the superb performances here:... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Martin offers melting loveliness…in the Adagio, a beautifully balanced wind chorale glides across a sea of bass pizzicatos and Martin gives its Quasi menuetto character a loose, lolloping swing — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

His approach to the archlike span of the Seventh Symphony may seem at first a little smooth and understated, as if to avoid any hint of portentous rhetoric, yet it soon evolves into a widely-ranging... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…