Eloquence

An intriguing record of the roots of historically-informed performance, Helen Watts and Desmond Dupré give passionate but (by today’s standards) heavy-handed accounts. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Foldes finds infinitely more of implication in the notes themselves, and he is constantly at pains to show exactly what Beethoven wrote and what he meant by it. There is an enormous amount to... — Gramophone Magazine, December 1959 More…

It is a joy to hear [Inge Borkh’s] high notes, loud or soft, taken so securely and so dead centre. She makes such things as the end of the Agamemnon monologue, the trying passage at the end... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 1961 More…

A properly Viennese ensemble with conductor Clemens Krauss, but with cuts and shorn of dialogue. Julius Patzak is a serviceable Sándor, home from exile, but Hilde Zadek’s gypsy Saffi steals... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

s[The Gerhard is] tunningly performed and engineered. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Martinon Violin Concerto] is deeply impressive … given its première by Szerying in 1961, it is haunting, the work of a real composer of individuality. It is lyrical but impassioned, with... — Gramophone Magazine More…