Warner Classics

The Alban Berg bring all their usual sophistication and Viennese hothouse climate to works which are sometimes illuminated by them, and equally often obscured. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century is exactly what it says: these classic interpretations warrant a place in everybody’s collection. — The TimesMore…

In recordings from 1967 and 1983, the Czech-born, Austrian soprano shows her aptitude for Mozart in a joint collection of operatic arias and sacred works, with a tonal range ideal for this music. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Hardly a perfect Turandot, with a dim Calaf and Schwarzkopf's mannered Liùm but Callas is electrifying in a role she sang only briefly on stage, keen-voiced and more intensely feminine than... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The Bulgarian artist recorded all three major bass roles in Boris Godunov and characterises each one remarkably, He is equally accomplished throughout the Russian repertoire. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

[On the Dvorák duets] when sung so charmingly and with such good balance as they are by the Misses Schwarzkopf and Seefried these pretty pieces are completely effective. — Gramophone MagazineMore…

Pappano's gift to constantly delve well beyond the reputation these tone-poems have as technically brilliant display pieces devoid of deeper content. Try to listen, for instance, to the plangency... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Bostridge is sharply attuned to the subtlety of Handel's work setting, colouring his sound with a rich palette of timbres and effects: sonorous and sensuous in 'Ombra mai fù', hauntingly stark... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007, 4 out of 5 starsMore…