Harmonia Mundi

From the first bars of Rachmaninov’s Second Sonata you are swept up in a maelstrom of emotion. The red light clearly holds no terrors for him as he relishes the full sonority of a richly voiced... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

On the plus side, every word Mauillon sings is audible and he has an enchanting mezza voce, which he sensibly doesn’t use too often. But although described here as a baritone, he lacks the richness... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The reading as a whole is beautifuly shaped and articulated by conductor Daniel Reuss...[his] vibrato-lite sopranos make a significant mark, soaring rapturously in the idyllic first half of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

there is much slick improvisation in this line up of unequal parts jazz and classical, ranging compositions by Imbert alongside his own arrangements of Wagner, Schubert, Eisler and Ornette Coleman.... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A riposte to the Three Tenors, this album from Pascal Bertin, Andreas Scholl and Dominique Visse provides a camp giggle or two as they essay unlikely and even inappropriate material. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 2 out of 5 stars More…

[Padmore’s] fairly reedy tone and his restraint in matters of volume go well with the instrument, and Kristian Bezuidenhout is a sympathetic accompanist…Padmore’s interpretation, too, I would... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti are both accomplished mimics, and miss no opportunities among the larks (Lalo’s L’Alouette’), cicadas (Chabrier’s ‘Les Cigales’), cats (Rossini’s famous cat... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With Christoph Eschenbach’s imaginatively conceived accompaniments, Matthias Goerne’s burnished legato evoke[s] a darkly Romantic world, despite some very slow tempos and fugitive consonants. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…