Wigmore Hall Live

Both singer and accompanist are on far better form, for me, than they were in Winterreise...These are direct, uncluttered accounts of songs of varying quality, and the deepest - 'Am Meer', 'Der... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the whole Sibelius group, anything but an easy opener for the programme, sets exacting challenges to which Isokoski rises, culminating in the mini-opera "The maiden's tryst". In the Strauss... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 More…

Even the reflective songs have an urgent, restless undertow...While this isn't the most scrupulously sung Schöne Müllerin on offer...Holzmair's sympathetic, tenorish baritone and quicksilver... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2015 More…

It's Maltman's superb breath control which gives shape and sensuous beauty to Debussy and Dupare. And, thanks to Drake's restraining pace, Warlock's Captain Stratton's Fancy' has real swagger.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Toby Spence's singing in Dies Natalis is… rather special. On the one hand his musical phrasing is beautiful: the lines hover and soar just as they should. Yet at the same time he brings freshness... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The fusion of dark and light, melancholy and joy, makes her Mahler particularly special. Here, the force of sadness is miraculously integrated with the high beauty of the voice… Geoffrey Parsons…answers... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…