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This transcription involves a constant interchange, bar by bar, between the full string ensemble of 25 and a string quartet with Kremer joined by the leaders of the relevant sections. The arrangement... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005More…

Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

…à la Duduki (a 'duduki' is a Georgian folk-reed instrument) should prove the ideal introduction to Kancheli's current style. And while a momentary encounter might suggest familiar territories... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

What most impresses about Márquez's playing is a sweetness of tone that recalls the use of the flesh against gut courses, a relatively free approach to phrasing and a seemingly effortless technique... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2007More…

Hearing top-grade quartet violinists tackle these flavoured educational duos is a delight, though not an original one. (The Emerson's co-leaders Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer have already... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The variety of sounds they can produce is truly impressive, as is the virtuosity of the singers. And what is perhaps most important is the way Spohr resists the temptation to highlight or exaggerate... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013More…

Heinz Holliger repeatedly explores the fragile boundaries between creativity and madness… Gesänge der Frühe, from 1987… is a strange hybrid of documentary an gradiloquent oratorio, whose carefully... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…