Browse: Stravinsky - Pastorale

Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Extremely enjoyable – each re-listening only heightens my pleasure in the programme and all the performances – and extremely valuable in its illumination of an important subsidiary aspect of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wistful is not a word one expects to use to describe a composition of Stravinsky but the Pastorale which opens this collection has just that kind of charm. Written originally as a vocal piece... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

When not aiming at ferocity, Dizdari's tone is notably rich and expressive - especially in the Part, played with a very modest degree of slowish vibrato. The Hungarian Dances are given with great... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

The performances are perfectly poised, the recording faultless. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…

These later digital recordings are more refined and detailed than those of the earlier generation, and with three of the world's greatest orchestras...the playing is outstanding. — The Guardian, 31st December 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…