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Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Belcea Quartet’s first Shostakovich release offers much food for thought. Their insightful performance of the Third Quartet fully encapsulates the work’s war-scarred anguish…Anderszewski... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This follow-up disc is every bit as exuberant as the first. Willis completes her survey of Mozart’s horn concertos with assured and expressive performances, accompanied with aplomb by the Havana... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ben Glassberg contributes a thoughtful essay to the booklet; with a few exceptions, his tempos are marginally broader than Britten’s, but the astonishing variety of invention, texture and atmosphere... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The performances exquisitely capture the shifting nuances and moods of a programme with a French bias, yet decidedly international in spirit…There is no doubt here that Stéphany’s is a highly... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…