Avi Music

Fischer’s elastic sense of tempo can be stretched to extremes in the Adagietto…What remains outstanding is the textural clarity…and among the clearest renderings on disc of the finale’s teeming... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This sparkling Kyrgyzstan-born light-lyric soprano recently scored a palpable hit as Sophie in the Bavarian State Opera’s live-streamed Der Rosenkavalier, and that same combination of crystalline... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, March 2021 More…

Elena Bashkirova…renders Mozart on a modern keyboard with smart tempos and restrained vehemence, which serves the material very well. The embellishments in the repeats of the sonata movements... — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

A triumph, both musically and technically. Encapsulating the best of all worlds, the Armida play with the exquisite nuancing of the finest old-school outfits, yet with a take-nothing-for-granted... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Given Ugorskaja’s tendency to rapt introspection at leisurely tempos I was initially taken aback by the duo’s focused take on these David Oistrakh-inspired works. The Prokofiev comes first in... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020 More…

Titles such as ‘Disorder’ and ‘The Devil’s Staircase’ tell you that these works are more than just exercises, fiendish though they may be. Krier tackles them impressively, though could occasionally... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…