ECM

just hearing the music itself, regardless of this infectious, quick-witted performance, is a revelation. Although the Castello feels like the most important work on this disc, the sonatas of... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

…an extremely dramatic an atmospheric performance of the Shostakovich 14th Symphony, the more unusual for being conducted by Gidon Kremer from the concertmaster's desk. …magnificent playing... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Holliger's Contrechamps, in particular, is a veritable compendium of clarinet effects, including several uncanny moments when the clarinet seems to play parallel chords...Reto Bieri makes all... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc, devoted exclusively to Kurtág's music for string quartet, is of great significance, and both performance and recording are equal to the enterprise. The Keller Quartet have secure... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

as Poppen plays one of the greatest movements for violin ever composed, the Hilliards sing the chorale quotations, showing how they fit alongside the solo line. It must have been extremely difficult... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 More…

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 stars More…

Here's 80 minutes of the gentlest and most refined music-making imaginable...There's no more moving experience in music than to hear the Sonatina from Bach's Actus Tragicus played by these two,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

You can't always tell in advance where the jewels will lie…but the duds never seriously compromise the joy and diversity of De Mare's enterprise and artistry, or the haunting power of Sondheim's... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…