Onyx

Pascal Rogé heads up this thoughtful disc of French trios. He has described his gods as Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, with Poulenc, Debussy and Satie as his friends. And so, too, are Ravel and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

In the Clarinet Trio, Rysanov has adapted the violin part (itself Beethoven's own alternative for the perkier wind instrument) for viola. No harm in that, especially when the playing is as polished... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Occasionally there's a feeling as with so many crossover classical attempts that the whole thing is too tasteful and careful, but what wins out here is Mullova's sheer dancing virtuosity in... — The Observer, 6th April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As one might expect, these are first-rate performances of natural authority. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ehnes and his well-upholstered Sidney strings tend to play the notes rather than tell the story in a reading that, for all its elegance, is more faithful to the letter than the spirit of the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In the rhapsodic musings of the slow movement Rysanov becomes the idealised incarnation of the gypsy fiddler that Brahms surely had in mind when composing that uniquely florid part. The whole... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Intellect is central: I've never heard so much revelatory detail in Prokofiev's triptych of dark and painful masterpieces. Kozhukhin has a way of bringing out the detail of the inner parts...that... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Liszt becomes a meditation on a chord; the second Ives piece twinkles, glows, and glowers; the Chopin pieces are given ravishingly delicate colouring, the Gershwin emerges as a silkily-delivered... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…