Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Gluzman [plays with] heartfelt eloquence and unbridled passion [in the Violin Concerto]…Gaffigan’s unfailingly attentive Lucerne players sound almost chamber-like in their textural detailing…in... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Even before Lisa Batiashvili makes her entrance, we can sense this will be an outstanding performance of the Brahms. Finely balanced, spacious recording, with woodwind and horns well placed,... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

In his booklet notes, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff points out that he has out that he has played these two central pillars of the concerto repertoire literally hundreds of times, and his... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[In the Brahms] Dego and Dalia Stasevska establish their own mix of restraint and exuberance, setting less store by inexorable development and immaculate finish than a sense of improvisatory... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

There’s an impressive level of excellence throughout, though Swensen is adaptable to moods between and within concertos…I love his natural way with slow movements, especially Mendelssohn’s and... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The multiple-strings version of the String Quartet in G is fascinating. I've long felt that the opening is really orchestral music, and in Weithaas's hands it leaps into life as exactly that. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

In the Brahms, Hadelich proves a sensitive and technically secure guide to the score’s alternations of serenity and passion, subtly varying degrees of vibrato; Miguel Harth-Bedoya unfolds the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…