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Even after just the first movement, the emotional journey that Currentzis and his orchestra had presented was so draining that I needed a moment to gather myself before continuing...I think part... — Presto Classical, 2nd November 2018 More…

Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, More…

Trifonov is wonderfully alive to [the Fourth’s] mercurial piano writing, achieving astonishing crystalline delicacy in the elaborate filigree passage work and negotiating unexpected juxtapositions... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, More…

Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles’ period-instrument sound and the restrained... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

Bartoli’s wiry, astonishingly agile voice remains in pristine condition...Her trademark machine-gun coloratura continues to astound in arias like the opening ‘Se lento ancora fulmine’ from Argippo...In... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 23rd November 2018 More…

Sonically, the Chandos recording [of the Symphony] has enormous impact…But the interpretation itself is too soft-grained and often oddly tentative…Wilson and the orchestra are far more successful... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

This is quite simply magnificent violin-playing, the sort that while you’re listening to it convinces you that the music couldn’t possibly be played any other way…you soon realise just how far... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

Both singers have unblemished voices of beautiful quality: Sabine Devieilhe, as Aminta, pellucid and free-soaring, Lea Desandre with a dark flare in her high mezzo…Le Concert d’Astrée, under... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

The way Levit has formed this programme is extraordinarily effective. The Brahms reworking for left hand of Bach’s D minor violin Chaconne is a probing, introverted affair, and how effectively... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…