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Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Johann Sebastian Bach… wrote Cantata 82, Ich habe genug, in 1727… Florilegium play it with touching gentleness, a filigree of one-to-a-part strings, Ashley Solomon's soft-toned baroque flute,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

In some respects this is a very personal disc. It aims, we are told, to explore the 'many and often subtle definitions' of the word 'romantic' as expressed in music for viola and piano...Zemtsov's... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

Around Prague provides a rare snapshot of Prague in the 1920s and 1930s when it was a cultural hotspot which, if perhaps not quite rivalling the legendary richness of Paris, certainly offered... — MusicWeb International, 16th July 2013 More…

…highly polished, stylish playing… — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

…Pieter Wispelwey… carries his audience through Prokofiev's epic narrative with a good deal of conviction, embracing wholeheartedly the work's vast array of emotions, which, in the central movement,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…