Orfeo

From the very outset, there's a real sense of urgency about the performance, Müller-Schott's razor-sharp articulation in the outer movements managing to combine rhythmic incisiveness with highly... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 More…

Skride delivers beautifully nuanced accounts of these works. Her sweet-toned performances of the first two concertos balance grace, elegance and wit in the outer movements with seductively expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions…this is a species of conducting you will seek out in vain today, the set is the perfect... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

The Dies Irae is so powerful – one of the most frighteningly powerful recordings I've heard, and impossible to be ambivalent about. — MusicWeb International, December 2022 More…

The Austrian take time to settle in Bernstein's own composition...but sit spellbound throughout the fiery, finally hell-for-leather interpretation of the Shostakovich...what a relief to revisit... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

Serkin was never interested in ingratiating himself through honeyed phrases or silken tone. Instead in these interpretations there is musical purpose and intellectual rigour in every detail...All... — The Guardian, 3rd February 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…