Onyx

The Kuss Quartet artfully exploits its disruptive mischief and innate asymmetry … Wit lights up this account, every joke perfectly timed, every nuance explored … Mojca Erdmann…is in her element... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017 More…

The main interest of this disc lies in the Czerny pieces. Very few of his thousand plus piano works are played today, and the Rode variations do indeed reflect a felicitous talent, with their... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Musorgsky pieces are superbly performed...Bare Mountain's hair-raising opening sounding genuinely menacing rather than brash, and every cackle of the witches as impersonated by strings and... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Schwanewilms's interpretations are regularly imaginative, her singing musicianly, though not all of her vocalism matches her good intentions. There's sometimes...an edge to her tone that combines... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

sometimes it's like listening to two people excitedly bouncing ideas off each other; at others it's like a love duet, or even the kind of intense parting conversation in which every word counts... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sane, dedicated, balanced playing such as that of Russian-born, London-based Rustem Hayroudinoff is always welcome, as is the clarity he brings to every texture. His own booklet essay…testifies... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

highly assured performances of these two marvellous chamber works...this warmly recorded performance is most compelling when Schumann explores the extrovert side of his musical personality...While... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Reiss is a properly pert Despina (Cosi) and an affecting Susanna...Her attention to detail in the recitative is scrupulous...Reiss's diamond bright coloratura is a mighty weapon...All told,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Walton's Cello Concerto is like a bottle of vintage wine from the composer's home on the Italian island of Ischia… its warmth, finesse and wry serenity are qualities that appeal all the more... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…