Browse: Rubicon (label)

Some bars indeed suggest watered-down Handel. Yet none of that stops the oratorio being craf tsmanlike and immediately expressive, and most of Owain Arwel Hughes’s forces attack it with vim...It... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Stephen Waarts and Gabriele Carcano find musical affinities between the composers. Bartók’s style is not just earth and fire, but poise, lyricism and elegance as well. Perhaps his works receive... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In every track, Birringer solidifies her rising stardom as one of Europe’s most recognized and accomplished violinists. [...] That Birringer excels in both pieces, in both a capacity for high... — Fanfare, November/December 2022 More…

The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really doesn’t help…He combines sensitivity and agility at the highest level, which should... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

The Jubilees’ approach to both works is impressive and controversial in equal measure. Ensemble and tuning are phenomenally precise, and individual and collective tone never forced. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Played here with sensitivity and intent, these elegiac works have a haunting quality. The recorded sound is slightly foggy — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match this new release in its balanced conception or consistency of execution…Soares... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

Fauré’s Après une rêve, Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and Brahm’s Vier ernste Gesänge performed on the trombone? Really? Well emphatically yes, when played with such intuitive phrasal sensitivity, intonational... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…