Pentatone

The recording gets off to a sparkling start with Paër’s ‘De che ciglio’ from his Leonora. Granner’s alert, open tone immediately captivates as he declares his love for the heroine, supported... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Hu’s playing is extremely persuasive. Most immediate striking is her digital control. The music is laden with repeated notes and tremolos, but in her hands it never congeals…Overall, an unusually... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2024More…

Steinbacher avoids any attempt to extract the music’s expressive world beyond what it can deliver, instead allowing her playing’s state-of-the-art tonal loveliness – at once silky and likeably... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It’s great to see the Spanish composer spread his wings beyond the cinema screen. Here he brings his innate sense of drama to a cello concerto, cantata and symphonic poem. Cellist Moser is a... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Kozhukhin, making light of the awkwardness and difficulty of Strauss’s writing, proves a brilliantly fleet and mercurial soloist: there’s no shortage of heroics but his playing is meltingly... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018More…