Browse: Ondine (label)

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…

…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…

Kokkonen's three finest orchestral scores in superlative readings. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 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…

That [Dithyrambos] should have such an effect is partly a tribute to the spirited musicianship of Pekka Kuusisto and Paavali Jumppanen. If Kuusisto ultimately emerges as the star, that's partly... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…