Browse: SACD, Berio (composer)

Trombonist Jörgen van Rijen is a force to be reckoned with – his scintillating playing brings these three thrilling modern concertos to life. The Royal Concertgebouw is on superb form. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Horizon series is an audacious project presenting top-class live performances in consistently fine if soft-grained sonics...The second disc veers off into pieces old and new, randomly showcasing... — International Record Review, January 2012 More…

Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

[Coro] t’s a mighty tour de force, particularly with Surround sound, but it doesn’t bluster. Cries Of London is far from lightweight, but it comes as a gentle anticlimax to the main piece and... — Choir & Organ, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Each of these pieces for trombone and orchestra subtly subverts the concept of the concerto in its composer's idiosyncratic way. Lindberg performs them with astonishing technical assurance,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Berio's] versions of the Mahler songs are straightforward and affectionately sung by Roderick Williams...Berio himself looms larger in Rendering...The sound of the celesta, alien to Schubert,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…