Onyx

Gorgeous chamber music-making - urgently recommended — Fanfare More…

If any life is left in the myth that only the English can do Elgar, it’s put to shame by the Russian conductor. This disc — an ideal mix of the grand and the intimate — shows a first-rate musician’s... — Sunday Times, 31st March 2019 More…

Rysanov yields little to Bashmet in terms of intensity of expression and the capacity to sustain an atmospheric melodic line. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Neven possess a lightly textured, attractive voice, and his diction is focused and expressive — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

It is a measure of her gifts that Chen Reiss takes all these composers in her stride. That vocal stride is impressive: sustained lyric tone that is only rarely forced...Charles Spencer is as... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Simon Trpčeski and Vasily Petrenko work exceptionally well together in delivering musically insightful and rhythmically dynamic performances. The same virtues are present in this compelling... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The young German virtuoso…brings crisp brilliance to its outer movements and plays the unusual 5/4 Larghetto with freedom. In naturally recorded sound, he shows how radiant textures in the Minuetto... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The sound of the Trpčeski recording is very good, offering clarity, detail, and solid, well-defined piano tone, with no ringing or blurring even in the loudest passages. This release will give... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

The Liszt becomes a meditation on a chord; the second Ives piece twinkles, glows, and glowers; the Chopin pieces are given ravishingly delicate colouring, the Gershwin emerges as a silkily-delivered... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…