BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011

Briggs [draws] sounds of roaring, surging eloquence and grandeur from the splendid instrument at Gloucester Cathedral. It helps, too, that the Trinity College Choir have such a 'live', untrammelled... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The obvious empathy that exists between these two artists...brings enormous dividends to this warmly recorded programme. It's so easy to become complacent in such a well-worn work as the Franck.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Her playing is classy, navigating a fine path between virtuosity, poetry, structural awareness and idiomatic style. There's a velvety lyricism to her Liszt and she's fearsome in the Schubert. — Classic FM Magazine, January 2011, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…