Onyx

Where Bavouzet breaks out into blazing Mediterranean sunlight, Rogé is happy to withdraw into shadow-land. Time and again his playing suggests emotion recollected in tranquillity rather than... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 More…

There is much to enjoy in Boesch's dramatic, intensely "lived" performances, and in the imaginative playing of Malcolm Martineau (ultra-sensitive in Schumann's secretive piano postludes). — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…

Graham is an artist to treausre, a striking mezzo whose powerful silky voice can achieve Janet Baker-like expressiveness, with a gift for French song but also a mile-wide impish streak...Porter's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Percan is an extremely capable violinist. Playing a modern Baroque-style instrument by Johannes Loescher, he makes a fine, bright, ringing tone, and many of the quicker movements sound brilliant... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 More…

Everything is beautifully phrased, and Pascal Rogé has a fabulous touch, difficult passagework often pouring out of him like a stream of glittering gemstones. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This entertainment alternatives between relatively unfamiliar short works and famous showstoppers. Petrenko and his Liverpool players make the liveliest possible argument for Kabalevsky’s Colas... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

ardent, tonally penetrating and skilfully structured. Ferrández is unfailingly elegant in the Schumann Cello Concerto...El cant dels ocells is the most revealing of Ferrández's individual voice,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Vigorous playing in these Romantic showpieces, although greater tonal weight and focus is needed, especially in the lyrical moments — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

he maintains a ferociously individual voice...But it is in the Kodaly that Ishizaka seems most at home...this dazzling recital can leave the listener in no doubt of the specialness of Ishizaka's... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…