Browse: Ondine (label)

This is Brahms playing of the highest quality. Lars Vogt secures an ideal balance between the intellectual and emotional components of these two epic works…Vogt’s achievement is all the more... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Mustonen’s Second Symphony awakens gradually, moving as a flower turning its head to the sun. The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra yawns and stretches, and we’re halfway through the first movement... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 3 out of 5 stars More…

As [Lintu] prises open Ligeti's mulched-up woodwind micropolyphony...time feels curiously suspended, the high-speed urgency of the music hurtling forwards slowly and unobtrusively...Ligeti's... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

Under Hannu Lintu, the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with such clarity and insight that is feels like a beautifully balanced clockwork mechanism – albeit one with a mightily exuberant... — The Strad, November 2018 More…

The discipline and quality of the playing is immediately evident in La valse…Yet the salient quality of Trevino’s approach is his preference for slowish tempos and the care he brings to details... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In her mid-forties, this voice has become richer and even more expressive, and he works on this disc suit her to perfection. She not only pronounces the words, she feels them...Her Nuits d'ete... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a coruscating performance from their first icy creeping entrance…I particularly love their evocation of the trio’s idyll as something infinitely distant, untouchable. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…