Onyx

This is a performance on the wing, as is evident in his use of rubato, and his willingness to modify dynamics to maximise projection. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

First-rate, spry and sensitive playing makes Graffin's and Blanken's advocacy persuasive. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011More…

Dausgaard exhorts the BBCSSO to milk the music for its intensity, conjuring a suitably claustrophobic and lurid setting...In general the transition moments are well handled and Dausgaard carries... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[Wosner] responds to every twist and turn with a sense of great immediacy as well as an airy, high-stepped poise and unerring pointing-up of Ligeti’s deliciously unpredictable rhythms. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016More…

The light, textured baritone of Florian Boesch finds excellent employment in this Schubert collection, flawlessly accompanied by Malcom Martineau. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Never has this often underestimated work [the Prokofiev Sonata] seemed more rich in incident and so eloquently expressive. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Graham is an artist to treausre, a striking mezzo whose powerful silky voice can achieve Janet Baker-like expressiveness, with a gift for French song but also a mile-wide impish streak...Porter's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[The Mendelssohn is] a wonderfully uplifting outburst of high spirits, generously and elegantly formed. Wispelwey always brings such a range of texture to his articulation and such airy luminescence... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

This debut reveals a sympathetic tone and an independent spirit which particularly suit the Schumann. Tempos are well-judged, with room for Pacini to explore the work's lyrical meditations.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 3 out of 5 starsMore…