Browse: Analekta (label)

From the very first bars of Saint-Saens's First Cello Concerto you sense that this disc is going to be exhilarating and rewarding. The performers launch the concerto with terrific passion and... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

Beside this, other recent violin concertos shrivel: this is a work that sings and soars with a visionary beauty rare in contemporary music. Against a vague, swirling background, the violinist... — The Times, 31st July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Although Shelley has the strings create a perfectly smooth surface in the slow introduction to Schumann’s Second...the dotted rhythms of the un poco più vivace (at 1'54") instantly shatter that... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

This Canadian group, led by Dubeau, always delivers the goods, with accessible and wide-ranging programmes. Marking 25 years, Elle brings together works by women composers both familiar and unsung,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Montero’s] playing is free-spirited, fire-centred and uninhibitedly expressive, with a sense of rhetoric and flexibility that suggests the Romantic era itself: you can almost see the young Clara... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[Ginastera] Wan rises to the occasion in this performance, bringing the same smoothness we hear in the Serenade. His poise in the opening solo cadenza (which lasts for 6:29) stresses its musicality... — Fanfare, May/June 2021 More…