Onyx

...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

Mullova plays the glorious ‘Siciliano’ second movement beautifully, while tongue-in-cheek elaborations in the accompaniment lend a sense of uninhibited exuberance to the finale… The two orginal... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These three players would seem to view the trios primarily as inward works, a conversation between friends...Thus these performances are most effective in the less extrovert parts of the music. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…

it's thrilling to find a recording that shines a light into [the Cello Symphony's] aqueous depths: here is a reading of wonderful precision, colour and vitality...[Wispelwey] brings an innate... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the boisterously confident Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic cuts another lively swathe through colourful 20th-century repertoire...[In the Bartok] The Turkish players and their Viennese conductor... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

surely, once in a while, we should indulge in this outrageous music, especially in these highly charged and glossy performances. — Sunday Times, 14th August 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

It's difficult to imagine anyone who would not warm now to this deeply Romantic work and its equally ardent predecessor, especially in performances as affectionate and musicianly as these.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Midori's] veiled tone and impeccable intonation lure us into Bloch's world...Throughout [the Janacek] she isn't afraid to dig hard into the strings, but she also knows when to mine the seam... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The familiar warmth is still there, but now there's a much firmer sense of disciplined purposefulness, and barely a rubato in sight. Whatever your opinions on the morality of style, there's... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…

What This Silence, the Baudelaire Songs and the Elegy for viola and seven instruments show is that Turnage is often at his strongest when he surrenders to his lyrical impulses. His melodic... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…