Harmonia Mundi

This is a wonderfully rich and rewarding concerto, packed with inventive orchestral detail. Widmann seems to move between different worlds ion the five interlinked movements, and the slower... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These are beautifully played performances, set in a generous enough acoustic (the Teldex Studio in Berlin) to give each instrument full voice...There is enough clarity around each instrument... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

These three brass sonatas generally come across with more subtlety than on the well-known recordings by Glenn Gould and friends. Anchoring this new project, Alexander Melnikov is a superbly... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a masterstroke of programme planning — Gramophone Magazine More…

Punto’s favoured instrument was the cor basse, and Van der Zwart adopts a wide mouthpiece to create what he describes as a more velvety sound in the low register. In the Ries, that’s echoed... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Rachmaninov Trios] share not only a sombre soundworld but a clarity of line that’s captured engagingly in these lyrical yet unsentimental performances by the Trio Wanderer…The Wanderers’... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bezuidenhout offers a performance that brings out all [the Fantasia's] intensity and passion...his refreshingly imaginative performances are marred only by a liking for exaggerated pauses between... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Devotees of Beethoven on period instruments will need no further encouragement. But sceptics, too, could do a lot worse than start here. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 More…