Browse: Evil Penguin (label)

What an interesting recording…The predominant sound is lean and well focused with a refreshing balance between strings and brass. The result in the Haydn symphony is a springy alertness underpinned... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brahms’s Requiem is one of the more docile of its type, so interweaving its movements with Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood works rather well as a concept, creating a benign musical narrative... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Henschel is pictured in winter-journey mode all over this CD. Yet it's Boris Berezovsky who deserves the limelight and displays the wider palette, conjuring up the trumpets, drums and trilling... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

An imaginative programme of chamber and choral music, designed to highlight links between them, is capped by a superb Second Piano Trio. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Though Van de Velde sounds a touch too restrained in the Prélude, Choral et Fugue – it really needs to ring out more – there’s a lovely singing tone in the Prélude, fugue et variation, and the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Henschel hasn't always been at his best with Wolf but he is here, always with a firm vocal line creating a clear path through the thickets of chromatic accompaniment, always with deeply felt... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2014 More…