Testament

Gabriele Santini and the forces of the Rome Opera in a genuinely intoxicating recording of Donizetti's bittersweet comedy. Margherita Carosio and Nicola Monti are the youthful Adina and Nemorino.... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007More…

For anyone lucky enough to have secured a ticket few orchestral concerts have remained so vividly in the memory as the one given by Karajan's incomparable Berlin Philharmonic in London's Royal... — 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…

…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…

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…

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…