Kristjan Järvi

Simonyan is a true virtuoso; his playing has a natural, unforced authority and, among other accomplishments, his clear, brilliant spiccato bowing is heard to great effect in the finales of both... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

Like many of his later works [the Fantasia is] elegiac in character, with a strong, lush tonal base: a warm cushion of orchestral sound supporting the continuous solo line…Meyers plays with... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Concerto has an absorbing trajectory, encompassing a wide variety of moods and textures but never losing that arresting quality of pithy and deeply felt expression that is Carter at his... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…

His performance of the Mendelssohn...points to a musician with all the technical gifts that these days are accepted as norms but also with stylistic taste, purity of tone and an attractive blend... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2014 More…

Gruber performs the Artmann settings himself, in a fruitily rhetorical way that evokes the Viennese cabaret of the pre-war era… Martin Grubinger's performance of the percussion concerto is... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

it's a measure of how Bach is still widely regarded as relevant and, whatever one might feel about these efforts, the originals abide, unharmed and unbowed...the ensemble playing is vivacious,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…