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Kanchieli's position as a powerful and individual voice is becoming more apparent with each vividly recorded issue in ECM's continuing series — BBC Music Magazine, April 2005 More…

To say that Vladímir Godár is a typical ECM discovery is certainly not to diminish either him or ECM. This Slovak composer uses a vocabulary in the works recorded here that will inevitably recall... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Várjon moves swiftly between numbers, joining the puzzle-pieces without ever giving us the complete picture…but there’s no doubt that [his] connecting intelligence makes each set as a whole... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This programme represents a retreat from the remote cloister where for so long Arvo Pärt invited us to join him, a definite shift from the aerated tintinabuli. The purity remains, so do the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If we think we hear Bach at one moment, then Mahler at the next, and then Widmann himself, then we’d be right: it’s a bit like being presented with the entire range of German art music in one... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste and ECM’s producer Manfred Eicher are Pärt ’s long-term collaborators, and they make an utterly assured contribution to this concentrated retrospective of the composer’s... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Under Igor Karsko’s committed direction, the playing of Camerata Zürich is superb and very well recorded, and there is a clear feeling throughout for the rich sentiment underlying these memories... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…