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Klava achieves precise chording and proves sensitive to pacing, with the music’s flow carefully measured. Intonation is close to ideal. In the apt acoustic of St John’s Church, Riga, there’s... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is choral singing of beguiling sophistication, beautifully recorded, that captures the score’s full range of expression, from hushed moments of introspective awe to rolling climaxes of... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I love the slow burn of Pletnev's Christmas-tree transformation, the nimbleness of the battle between the Nutcracker's forces and the mice, and the strangeness of his Snowflake Waltz...the RNO... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

…Mustonen creates a savage case for an unduly neglected sonata. …he creates a searing emotional turbulence, whirling us through the vortex of the first movement development with heart-stopping... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 More…

Christoph Eschenbach's approach to the Serenade is big and sumptuous...he [hits] the heights of the love theme [in Romeo & Juliet] with aristocractic aplomb and he always reminds you what a... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Pletnev's] devotion to Tchaikovsky is manifest in this performance. He knows the orchestra he created well, and how much he can ask of it; it is the orchestra as virtuoso that dominates. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 More…

This really is the showcase for the powerful Philadelphia string sonorities… Cellos mirror the said oboe melody of the Andantino with ineffable feeling; its striding centrepiece is justifiably... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 More…

I find this orchestra's response is wanting in the real atmospheric depths so effortlessly encompassed in an all-Russian performance like any of Mravinsky's or Gergiev's with the Kirov Orchestra. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…