Onyx

Bashmet is one of the last great figures in the long line of Russian instrumentalists stretching back to the Rubinstein brothers… in the mid-19th century. The sense of a musician living through... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

Mráček offers a lusty performance of the infrequently performed Mazurek, Op 49 – both violinist and conductor score maximum points here. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 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…

The London Handel Orchestra and Soloists, under the assured direction of Adrian Butterfield, offer lightly-articulated and texturally lucid performances, where Grace Davidson’s limpid A major... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

First-rate, spry and sensitive playing makes Graffin's and Blanken's advocacy persuasive. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

Perhaps the distinguishing feature of this version is the accompaniment of Malcolm Martineau, who contrives to bring some new insight to every single song, without ever sounding mannered...Florian... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

astonishing sophistication — BBC Music Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars More…