Harmonia Mundi

Bezuidenhout offers a personal distillation that is impressively absorbing. So indeed are the timbre and sonority of the instrument...But, perhaps unexpectedly, a singing line is to the fore... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010More…

In style [Manasse] is an arch-romantic in his interpretations of both these concertos...[his] shading of dynamic is most beautiful with a breathtaking pianissimo in the reprise of the main theme... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2010More…

Manasse and Nakamatsu find an expressiveness in the music that is rather haunting...[Manasse's] tone is consistently ravishing, and he always plays with an exciting sense of musical direction... — International Record Review, December 2010More…

this is undoubtedly another impressive instalment in Bezuidenhuit's Mozart cycle, with a particularly fine account of the C major Prelude and Fugue K394, and an individual approach to the unconventional... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Vivid, profoundly intelligent accounts of six of Shostakovich's Quartets. The Jerusalems prove eloquent exponents of these works' tragic intensity and bittersweet lyricism. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Herreweghe draws some imaginative colours from Mendelssohn's brilliant score with an outstanding contribution from soprano Sandrine Piau. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Pastoral Debussy, most seductive in the Sonata with Causse's grit a welcome foil to his colleagues' limpid sounds. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Staier's playing is illuminating. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Well loved quartets superbly performed, and imaginatively coupled — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…