ECM

Three of these middle-period works are short, but what riches they deliver, and all abundantly and robustly realised by Schiff. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Kashkashian's superbly engineered recording of the Bartók Viola Concerto bears witness to a total identification between performer and composer.
Even the tiny pause bridging the opening and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The disc reflects a remarkably productive recent period in the composer's life...The music's broadly harmonic conception also takes the music occasionally into unexpected areas, including barbershop,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

Even in the hairiest passages of the Hammerklavier Sonata Op 106, Schiff's poise never deserts him, while the textural clarity, especially of the inner lines, is always a delight. — The Guardian, 31st October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Just as Schnittke's First Symphony picks up the threads from Shostakovich's last, so his Piano Quintet feels like the natural successor to Shostakovich's last string quartet; that makes ECM's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Few vocalists if any could match this group for their tuning. In works such as Dolcissima mia vita) with its chromatic ending and its flickering lines at the word 'fire'), the effect is superbly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The accounts are intimate and subtly coloured, the Hilliards' distinctive sound still unsullied, four decades on.The singers' faultless clarity of diction, highlighted by the close recording... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…