Avi Music

Given Ugorskaja’s tendency to rapt introspection at leisurely tempos I was initially taken aback by the duo’s focused take on these David Oistrakh-inspired works. The Prokofiev comes first in... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020More…

Magisterial power in sombre and radiant marches, the subtlest rubato in the old-new minuet which follows, establish Ádám Fischer as one of the greatest living Mahler conductors…Engineering render... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

this new [recording] is uncommonly effective, well recorded, sharp-edged and witty, with Herbert Schuch a crisp soloist...Schuch has a way of maintaining pulse and energy while finding room... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Elena Bashkirova…renders Mozart on a modern keyboard with smart tempos and restrained vehemence, which serves the material very well. The embellishments in the repeats of the sonata movements... — Fanfare, May/June 2023More…

Admirers of the Franck will not be disappointed, but ultimately it’s the Martin that makes the disc very special indeed. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023More…

This sparkling Kyrgyzstan-born light-lyric soprano recently scored a palpable hit as Sophie in the Bavarian State Opera’s live-streamed Der Rosenkavalier, and that same combination of crystalline... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, March 2021More…

Ugorskaja’s slow and often static approach [is] epitomised in her double-length bass trill at the end of the first phrase of the sonata...Within this state of pervasive lingering, if you can... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020More…