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Listening to No. 9 on the piano is a curious experience, but if the variety of tone-colour of the orchestral (and vocal) original is inevitably diminished, the music's harmonic boldness and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The bracing effect of hearing this over-familiar music pared down to its essentials to a degree not even the most radical of Cafe Zimmermann's predecessors have managed is refreshing indeed. — International Record Review More…

Vannina Santori, 36, releases the odors and textures of Verlaine’s verses with her mellow, lyrical, textured voice. There’s no posturing, no phony pear-shaped stuff, but rather a natural narrative... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

The Strauss, to open, shimmers with deconstructed clarity, its intertwining lines following their own course and yet largely in the pursuit of these whole – there is no over-egged intensity... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The appealingly voiced Sempey has sung Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in major opera houses throughout Europe and beyond, and his immersion in the role is abundantly clear in the witty, wellcharacterised... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

it’s beauty rather than the beast that you get here...on this showing Franck is more of a sophisticate than he is a primitivist. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

Their playing once again exhibits fearlessness and pinpoint accuracy, deeply considered blend and a palpable joy in the colour palette available to the string quartet. They have been captured... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Mead began as a choral scholar in England and is known for his clear diction and vocal poise, while Lazarevitch studied in Paris and Brussels, and has an eclectic approach to instrumental performance,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[Mahler] I couldn’t wait to hear Hannigan in the finale, and she is superb, conveying the childlike wonder of the vocal part with such musicality and dramatic conviction that it will be hard... — Fanfare, March/April 2022 More…