ECM

the luminous playing of the opening of Berg's Sonata Op. 1 tells us this is a pianist of rare sensitivity...Varjon's probing approach reveals the finest shades of harmonic colouring and places... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

These are superlative performances of these extremely familiar works...The give and take between Fellner and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra is uncanny, in that they seem to be questioning or... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Kanchieli's position as a powerful and individual voice is becoming more apparent with each vividly recorded issue in ECM's continuing series — BBC Music Magazine, April 2005More…

…Saariaho's combination of instruments with live electronics comes up as fresh as ever… it's… the vibrant quality of the playing from Norway's premiere new music quartet - never ugly, even... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The Concerto finds Schumann staring into the abyss, but its slow movement, in particular, has an otherworldly atmosphere that is profoundly affecting. Carolin Widmann and the Chamber Orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Whether it’s in the incisive attack of the opening Invocation, the passionate mourning in the memorial to the pianist György Sebők, or the precise harmonics in Rappel des oiseaux, they identify... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Kodama is a subtle and poetic soloist in both works, in control of a particularly beautiful range of quiet sonorities in the Hosokawa and matching that, in the Mozart, with ‘pouring-oil’ passagework... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 5 out of 5 starsMore…