Harmonia Mundi

Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

There’s hardly an abrupt, harsh moment throughout. But Heinrich Heine’s suffering-infused words need more risk, edge and ugliness…In other words – not revelatory or devastating, but beautifully... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

In the Freiburg Orchestra's exhilaraing account, the soft-grained Baroque flute which gilds the B minor Suite certainly fits well with the 'small is beautiful' impulse...Its reading may lack... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The biggest surprises of Mahler’s second, 1893 version of his first symphonic masterpiece…are the touches of orchestration later changed, usually for the better…Roth’s punchiness is probably... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Les Nuits d’été rapidly came to be seen as a vehicle for female voice. Stephane Dégout’s superb account makes clear this need not be so…Roth’s period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles provides... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Faust resists the kind of full-blown romantic ardour that might seem appropriate to music inspired by a protracted love affair. Instead she weaves her sinewy melodic line in a more introverted... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This account was recorded ‘live’ at the Paris Philharmonie and there’s a sheen of polished spontaneity to it… Tempos are brisk and breezy…and Christie puts the ballet shoes on Bach, so that... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…