Browse: Rubicon (label)

There are arresting ideas…But Amner rarely approaches the greatness of his peers such as Gibbons, and his ‘professional efficiency’ sometimes rubs off on the Dubliners under Mark Keane…Fretwork... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

On this disc of high-quality playing there are many treasures, not least of all the ebullient Quintet, which is a cracker. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Certainly these works benefit from Martinova’s energy and splendid ear for tone colour. — Gramophone Magazine More…

An attractive sequence of folk-inflected works by Georgian, Armenian, Greek, Hungarian and British-born composers in imaginative arrangements for solo cello and string orchestra by Alessio Pianelli...strongly... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

At its centre is the large-scale Piano Sonata by Bridge...It breaks with Bridge’s pre-war tonal language and Soares is clearly in tune with the work’s anguish, making much of the opening’s high-lying... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021 More…

Cerrato’s performances are technically impressive, but his interpretations are not merely demonstrations of his technique or of the requirements of these sonatas. This is music making of the... — MusicWeb International, November 2017 More…

Carcano offers a strong vision of a thoughtful, deliberate Schumann: his rendition of the opening Humoreske is multi-layered, weighty; it’s perhaps not quite as eccentric as one might hope because... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver make an exceptionally good duo. The sense of intimate responsiveness to each other runs through all four sonatas…Everything sounds as though it’s minutely calculated... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…