Orfeo

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…

[Arutiunian] Ott’s trumpet sound has a consistent, pleasing tonal quality throughout its range.[Desenclos] The range of expression is very wide, and there is some lovely and tender slow music... — Fanfare, May/June 2021 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…

The Concerto funebre (1939, rev 1959) has fared better on disc than any other Hartmann work… Its powerful inner message of grief and protest at then encroachment of tyranny across Europe… gives... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…

Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions…this is a species of conducting you will seek out in vain today, the set is the perfect... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

From the very outset, there's a real sense of urgency about the performance, Müller-Schott's razor-sharp articulation in the outer movements managing to combine rhythmic incisiveness with highly... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 More…

Skride delivers beautifully nuanced accounts of these works. Her sweet-toned performances of the first two concertos balance grace, elegance and wit in the outer movements with seductively expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Serkin was never interested in ingratiating himself through honeyed phrases or silken tone. Instead in these interpretations there is musical purpose and intellectual rigour in every detail...All... — The Guardian, 3rd February 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…