Browse: Ondine (label)

Hvorostovsky's baritone, still one of the great voices, can combine dark timbre with an emotional warmth to offset the granitic style; while pianist Ivari Ilja, although unable to mimic apocalyptic... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A dark yet wickedly funny opera from 1984 with roots somehow simultaneously in the Hundred Years War, the future, and our own environmentally challenged present, with the spectre of an idealistic... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 10th June 2006 More…

Three key works, each from an essential point in Witold Lutosławski’s career, add up to a thrilling portrait of the modern Polish master. All are played with searing energy by the Finnish Radio... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Klava achieves precise chording and proves sensitive to pacing, with the music’s flow carefully measured. Intonation is close to ideal. In the apt acoustic of St John’s Church, Riga, there’s... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lintu's awareness of internal balance is masterly. The machine-like tutti that follows the first-movement piano cadenza marches relentlessly forwards, strings crooning high above the extreme... — Gramophone Magazine, September 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…

Eschenbach’s focus is very fixedly on the earlier, wilder Hindemith in this first disc of a two-volume set...Tempos are swift and lively, the touch light not heavyhanded, relishing the fervid... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…