ECM

When Hartmann opted for internal exile during the Nazi era, he took with him some key influences from the free musical world. Beam up around 0'33" into the third movement of the 1939 Concerto... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

a gloriously abstract tapestry of unprecedented sounds. A compelling journey every time. — Sunday Times, 12th May 2013More…

Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste and ECM’s producer Manfred Eicher are Pärt ’s long-term collaborators, and they make an utterly assured contribution to this concentrated retrospective of the composer’s... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

…there is often an expressive intensity about his approach which leaves us in no doubt about the depth of his feelings. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Zehetmair is the intellectual's violinist, with a hair-trigger precision of sound and rhythm, and an eager interest in the allusive and tough-minded parts of contemporary music. His wife, the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Technically, this music works only if its simplicity is expressed on the most complex and wide-ranging spectrum of tone, colour and dynamics, and that is what Gidon Kremer and his wonderful... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the little match girl who freezes to death on Christmas Eve as a parable of modern society's inhumanity, while drawing parallels with the fate of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 starsMore…