Building a Library, Romantic (era)

Both soloist and conductor seem committed to emphasising the architectural integrity of Tchaikovsky's musical thinking...Yet by keeping things moving and delivering performances that project... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gerhaher twins the Eichendorff Liederkreis with Schumann's four settings of poems by Hans Christian Andersen - and reveals, in minutely sensitive, sometimes harrowing performances their emotional... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christian Gerhaher has long been recognized as one of the foremost Lieder artists of our time. In many ways, Gerhaher’s lyric baritone and penetrating, detailed interpretations are reminiscent... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Isserlis's mobile, feeling but never gushing legato lines… Hough's winged, crystalline partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005 More…