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after decades of conducting the world's greatest orchestras, it's particularly touching that [Chung] should turn here to music of such prevailing intimacy. Though most of the repertoire is well-known,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Few vocalists if any could match this group for their tuning. In works such as Dolcissima mia vita) with its chromatic ending and its flickering lines at the word 'fire'), the effect is superbly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

relaxed, vaguely ethnic, New Age background music in which one piece segues imperceptibly into the next and rough edges are smoothed away...listeners in search of a mood of limpid repose could... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Armenia, in Mansurian's vision, is like the original cradle of sound. The seamless fusion of sacred and folk influences, not displayed as 'local colour' but wholly absorbed into the music's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All the pieces on this final instalment of the ‘Prism’ series stand on a threshold, and in this Op 135 Beethoven does so with the vitality and humour of the Diabelli Variations. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

András Schiff's sharp attention to detail spills over from the first volume in his projected Beethoven cycle into this recital, although he sometimes crosses the thin line separating astute... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

From the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and others, we now recognise the sound as a professional one: blend that hardly distinguishes between male and female voices; an ease with extremes... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Marsh plays to the Hilliards' strengths, throwing individual voices into high relief with chilling declamatory passages set against a mostly homophonic texture. The programme is driven by the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…