Browse: Brahms - Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4

Williams is a singer who just gets better and better. The way he spins velvety lines in Brahms’s An die Nachtigall and Sapphische Ode, making every syllable meaningful, is something to savour. — The Guardian, 22nd July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Morison’s mezzo basks in an almost inextinguishable warmth and radiance...Everywhere her sense of musical line is a wonder (pianist Malcolm Martineau conjuring wonderments of his own), though... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Her dark, distinctive timbre, expressive colouring and fast-moving vibrato are heard at their best in Schubert, Mahler, Wolf and Brahms, although she also sings splendidly in Purcell’s Sound... — The Times, 7th December 2018 More…

[in the E minor Cello Sonata] the flexibility of tempo sounds totally natural and unforced...with his nut-brown tones in the lower registers of the cello, I hope for many more recordings of Romantic... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…

The best performance here is an extraordinary rendition of the First Violin Sonata. Transferred to the cello's upper strings, and played with limpid elegance, its musing character is given an... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…