Accentus Music

The performances certainly feel freshly imagined...There is every so often a wiriness here that will not be to all tastes. A challenging listen, then, but one bringing abundant rewards. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

Written in the wake of his opera The Passenger, these Preludes find Weinberg in combative and even capricious mood… All in all, this is a fascinating and expressively inclusive opus to which... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

This disc is of sublime music, gloriously played, and it is one of those occasions when it seems superfluous to say much more…What Sunwook Kim brings to [the last three sonatas], as he also does... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Berman invests] sufficient energy and dedication in his interpretations to allow the music to speak directly and fervently to the listener. It ’s also clear that members of the orchestra, the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From the moment she put bow to strings, I was immediately taken by the simplicity, directness, responsiveness, and communicativeness of Kang’s playing. It was like a breath of fresh air...for... — Fanfare, March/April 2022 More…

[The Butterfly Lovers’ concerto might easily be dismissed as somewhat unfashionable now, but instead makes for a completely delightful listen, not least due to dazzling performances from soloist... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Xiao-Mei draws a glorious, lyrical sound forom the piano - by turns lustrous, glittering, glassy - bringing out individual strands of even the most complex polyphony with exquisite lucidity.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…