Browse: Wergo (label)

Worth hearing, but no real challenge to earlier recensions of Mahler’s sketches — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This composer obviously feels things deeply and believes in traditional “expression.” But the sort of frenetic jagged eruptions one hears in the first movement are at least as much a fruit of... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

Though couched in a complex style and flaunting intellectual subtexts (its cover reproducing a Gerhard Richter abstract), these works — the others being Stephan Winkler’s Von der Gewissensnot... — Sunday Times, 14th July 2019 More…

As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a very enjoyable disc and a testament to the fine art of programming and sequencing a recording. — International Record Review, September 2013 More…

Riskily static at one extreme, turbulently volatile at the other, the whole work has an authentically awestruck character and an infectious lack of inhibition that Eötvös usefully preserves in... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

I cannot recommend this issue highly enough. It is so entertaining, so thought-provoking, and fills out a portrait of a composer who does not deserve to be forgotten. Holliger and his orchestra... — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…