Browse: Onyx (label)

…Ehnes has returned to these coruscating 'finger-breakers' (as Ricci once described them), playing with the same glowing tonal finesse as before, but with a new lyrical intensity… Beguilingly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

Performance takes on an urgent narrative as Vasily Petrenko brings his own brand of Russian authority to the music. — Financial Times, 21st February 2015 More…

These highly sophisticated readings recall a time when quartet ensembles tended more towards tonal matching than linear independence. Miraculously, James Ehnes’s gloriously radiant sound is matched... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Moog] gives a strong performance: rich and lavishly varied in sound, powerful, panoramically phrased with an impressive command of large-scale structure, and characterised with enough sleight-of-hand... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Karabits and Ehnes share a powerful idea of [the Britten's] narrative, and each scene is vividly realised...Karabits draws searing clarity, balance and detail from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra...his... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Moog decides to pair Debussy’s tricky Études with that other keyboard Everest, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. He meets all the technical challenges, and it’s an interesting listen. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Stotijn's latest well-earned recital disc takes the imaginative high ground right at the start...In the booklet-notes, Stotijn eloquently explains why they travelled to Schiermonnikoog (or 'Grey... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness and his octaves are nothing short of dazzling. His fortissimo... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…