Browse: Accentus Music (label)

Enthralling performances of Pärt’s piano works; in Lamentate, Gražinytė is transfixing, her instrument an equal partner that never peeks above the orchestra’s parapet of sound. Sublime. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The singing and playing are uniformly excellent, and the recording has exemplary balance and clarity. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020 More…

Xiao-Mei draws a glorious, lyrical sound forom the piano - by turns lustrous, glittering, glassy - bringing out individual strands of even the most complex polyphony with exquisite lucidity.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Puccini’s youthful inspiration sounds most effective here [in the four excerpts from the Messa di Gloria], elegantly sung and played with scaled-back forces, making you wish you could experience... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Beautifully performed by the Ælbgut ensemble and Capella Jenensis, this recording allows us to compare the three candidates’ submissions. Telemann’s cantata has the expected smooth eff iciency... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…