The focus is on its genuinely symphonic breadth, the deep shadows and pregnant pauses.
An account of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy that’s sure to exceed expectations.
A Liszt recital that will linger in the memory long after the last notes.
Delivered with apparently effortless grace and effervescent athleticism.
The recording is a peach, perfectly framing Faust’s superb musicianship.
You’ll almost believe you’d bought a ticket, so brilliant is this live recording.
The Elias Quartet catches Britten’s powerful emotional undercurrents superbly.
A beautifully focused recording, regardless of who actually wrote it.
Young Latvian Nelsons conducts as though he believes in every bar.
Two CDs for the price of one: an excellent souvenir of a canny composer.
This could be the finest Mahler you’ll hear all year. Absolutely essential.
A disc of serious beauty from Peter Kooij’s ensemble Sette Voci.
Utterly charming, transcending the obvious limitations of the text.
What we hear is Znaider’s own heartfelt response to the Elgar.
A successful document of the occasion.
An exhilarating journey, from illicit love to redemption with plenty of colour and range.
Kopatchinskaja has something genuinely individual to say about this masterpiece.
Buy this for Les Illuminations, but savour it for so many new discoveries.
Prepare to be disarmed by a remarkable debut.
His sweetness of tone and intense, unselfish musicality pay dividends.
There’s something inescapably Russian about how Paterson-Olenich plays.
...the recording captures the whole spectacle with apparent ease...
It's as refreshing and stimulating as that icy plunge after a sauna
...one of the finest Strauss recordings I've heard in ages.
This may not be the last recorded word on Broucek, but right now it sounds like a...
A seductive, sometimes shocking and viscerally exciting musical experience.
It feels simple, yet it obviously isn’t; it’s profoundly beautiful, timeless, and...
Volume one of this major post-war German composer's works given an emotional performance.
Buy it, and give the Four Seasons a break…
Let’s hope it won’t be long before we can hear the second half of the series.
The recording is Lyrita at its best...
...an unusual feeling of absorption, devotion and dedication...
Sheer delight from end to end.
It’s the only opera I know starring a diva who’s over 300 years old, and still...
I can’t think of anything that would improve this package...
...managed to make me listen to these concertos with something approaching fresh ears...
...You’d have to have a cold heart not to be caught up in the performances.
This couldn’t be better.
Strongly, indeed, urgently recommended
It’s the first recording the Takacs has made for its new label Hyperion, and they...
...truly celebratory...
Rossini's solemn mass, written towards the end of his life, is performed here in its...
Warner Classics' second disc of music by the undeservingly neglected British...
A superb English-language version of Bartók's brooding gothic opera, with fine...
An impressive recording of Zemlinsky's romantic masterpiece, based on a text by...
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are fabulously responsive partners to...
Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen calls this work 'a fairy tale for grown-ups' - it...
Daniel Hope performs Shostakovich's two violin concertos with integrity and...
An impressive SACD of a live performance...
Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet, so-called because of its harmonically-ambiguous slow...
