Building a Library, Contemporary (era)

In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The [Goldberg] Aria sings without affectation as if to emphasise that what follows isn't about the theme but what happens to it...Unstarchy too is Levit's approach to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations...As... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary... — The Times, 19th April 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

the performances are startlingly beautiful and free and the arrangements endlessly creative — Early Music Today, May 2015, 4 out of 5 starsMore…