Browse: Wigmore Hall Live (label)

Bostridge’s commitment to Schubert remains exceptional, as does, too, that of his marvellous colleague Julius Drake at the piano – a player of complete technical authority, and surely the tenor’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…this is one of the darkest, slowest Schwanengesangs on disc: there is a unique menace in the final 'Gute Nacht' of 'Kriegers Ahnung'; and 'In der Ferne' gives full, long weight to those six... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Ysaÿe's take on Debussy is forthright and dramatic, pointing up the edginess of the opening particularly well. This is a warm, generous reading… The Stravinsky pieces are a very different... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 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…

The relevation on this disc is the Britten Cello Sonata...This live performance shows us Perényi at the height of his powers, burning with that intense, inimitable Hungarian high seriousness,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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…