Wigmore Hall Live

…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 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…

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…

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…

…scrappy moments but the zesty interaction of the AAM's players in two of Handel's Op 6 Concerti grossi is unflaggingly alert, playful and dramatic. Frank de Bruine's poetic oboe is attractively... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…

The tenor puts together a stimulating mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar, and is supported with unerring sensitivity and skill at the piano by Julius Drake…At no stage, either, does one... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…