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The subtlety of her phrasing and range of her tonal palette reveal Skride as a Romantic player of real stature, and in the Prokofiev-like scherzo she’s not afraid to dig in and make less beautiful... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Müller-Schott has the technique to project the disc’s multitude of moods and to move seamlessly from virtuosity to sensuousness and back again...The Saint-Saëns Concerto is a joy from start... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Skride's way with Stravinsky's Violin Concerto confirms it as a masterpiece of grace, charm and scintillating joie de vivre...Skride engages happily with the [Martin's] beguiling range of light... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There’s plenty to enjoy here — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020 More…

This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…