Decca

Although Beethoven designated these works as 'for piano and violin', following Mozart's example, it's unlikely that he thought of the piano as leading the proceedings, or the violin either,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Kertész shapes the music admirably, and Walter Berry makes an appropriately compassionate Bluebeard (as opposed to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on DG, who is altogether too menacing); but neither... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

With some pretty fast tempos throughout, Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester certainly don't hang about, but there's never any question of the music sounding rushed, and the last movements... — James Longstaffe, Presto MusicMore…

Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

it sounds even more spectacular than it did in its vinyl format, vividly catching Beethoven's musical picture of armies clashing. — Penguin Guide, 2011 editionMore…