ECM

Kashkashian's superbly engineered recording of the Bartók Viola Concerto bears witness to a total identification between performer and composer.
Even the tiny pause bridging the opening and the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

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 the... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The disc reflects a remarkably productive recent period in the composer's life...The music's broadly harmonic conception also takes the music occasionally into unexpected areas, including barbershop,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 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…