Browse: CD, Webern (composer)

Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

All the pieces on this final instalment of the ‘Prism’ series stand on a threshold, and in this Op 135 Beethoven does so with the vitality and humour of the Diabelli Variations. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

their new account under Heinz Holliger unfolds at relatively steady tempos, with more compositional logic than late Romantic passion...[Holliger's] deployment of a relatively small string line-up... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Francesca Chiejina’s lustrous soprano brings serious class to Zemlinsky's Dehmel setting, and also to Alma Mahler’s songs. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…