Testament

Jacqueline du Pré was 20 when she recorded Elgar's Cello Concerto with Barbirolli and the LSO August 1965 – an interpretation universally acclaimed for its profound expressiveness (see above).... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This pioneering set of Gerontius has come up newly minted in these superbly engineered transfers taken from 78rpm masters. That only enhances the incandescence and fervour of the reading itself,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

this Testament release of Rostropovich in his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival catches the cellist somewhere near his early and all-conquering best — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017More…

[Keilberth] is urgent and passionate, and the thrust of the performance makes the result intensely exciting, inspiring the great Wagnerian singers in the cast to give of their finest...here... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 starsMore…

Time and again, as I listened enraptured to this overwhelming performance, I felt as though as I was sitting in the Bayreuth stalls. …Keilberth's… command of every aspect of this vast score... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2006More…

…Götterdämmerung with white-hot immediacy. The cast is superb, from Norns and Rhinemaidens upward. Keilberth sweeps them all along the path of tragedy with compellingly balanced drive and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

it is surely astonishing that Pollini could reject his early superfine brilliance,his aristocratic musicianship, his patrician ideal in the Chopin Etudes...What superb articulacy in, say, Op.... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012More…