Deutsche Grammophon

...Alagna’s singing is passionate, endearing, full-voiced and very musical. Plus he is courageous and talented enough to follow Verdi’s markings in the ‘pppp’ ending of the aria ‘Celeste Aida’.... — MusicWeb InternationalMore…

Pires's musical qualities are well known; clarity and resilience of line, luminous singing tone, a near-ideal balance between aristocratic poise and emotional absorption, and a rare poetic eloquence.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

...all three play with such confidence, verve and – wait for it – deference, that they bounce off and meld with each other perfectly in a performance that brings out all the tension, tenderness... — Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 22nd October 2009More…

[The Bruch] receives a warmly committed account from the soloist and the hugely responsive Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Sakari Oramo. As in his recording of the Mendelssohn, Hope never... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Finch's… bold tone suits the haughty French Ouverture, she's fearless in the most taxing figurations and profoundly expressive in the meditative Variation 25. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

With its celebration of the Feast of St Stephen (Boxing Day), its bracing and buoyant playing from the Berlin Baroque Soloists, and with the sheer delight of the robust duetting between Thomas... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…