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If the story is thin, the music stylishly performed by Le Concert Spirituel is often magnificent…If the orchestra, particularly the principal flautist and trumpeter, rather overshadow the soloists,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jörg Widmann makes an impassioned plea in the CD booklet on behalf of Weber and the highly charged drama of his music. It’s that dramatic tension which he conveys so vividly in these very personal... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is no question that the Belcea Quartet...are completely on top of the formidable technical demands of these scores...the knife-edge contrasts of the Webern miniatures and the generously... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Haselböck draws from his period instrumentalists a performance that is as sonically satisfying as it is vital and well-proportioned…a most absorbing disc — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Kantorow drives the music hard but the Liège Royal Philharmonic sound appealingly suave, and Lalo’s trademark snap-chord accentuation are all exactingly in place. The soloists don’t disappoint…a... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Listening to performances of such high intensity, focus and narrative power as this makes you long for the full EFO to stop bringing us bits and pieces and record some (or all) of Tubin’s symphonies. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2023 More…