Harmonia Mundi

Enjoyable as other digital recordings of Beethoven's first quartets by (for example) the Takács and Lindsay Quartets are, this new Tokyo set just about pips all rivals to the post.
The reason... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Once a winner in Radio 3's Building a Library feature, this performance of Messiaen's prison-camp meditation on eternity, enormously but unshowily virtuosic and very well balanced, remains highly... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

…a grandiose performance - all repeats observed; not bombastic or posturing but eager (in Egarr's words) 'to let this music sing and to keep the music free from rigidity and haste'. Most impressive... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2006More…

Frederic Chiu is a compelling pianist, and one blessed with a formidable technique… there's some really impressive playing here, and we also get the three Nouvelles études written for Moscheles's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

…fine contributions from Carolyn Sampson, Peter Kooy - their duet in BWV 207 comes over with light-footed charm - and Mark Padmore whose declamation of recitative is outstanding. Instrumental... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It isn't fanciful to hear decided pre-echoes in Herminie of Cassandra's fateful, searing music (quite apart from the dry-run for the Symphoniefantastique's main motif). This extraordinary work... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…