Browse: Capriccio (label)

Sitting across the gap between classical and jazz, Kapustin’s Concerto for Piano and Violin is largely bluesy in feel, while the Fourth Piano Concerto almost has a touch of rock about it. In... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is not the first recording [of Concerto No. 5], though the only other version – performed by Masahiro Kawakami (on Exton) – is hard to purchase outside Japan. In any case, this new recording... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Ariane Matiakh’s performance of the symphony is beautifully done and can be recommended alongside James Judd’s 1995 account for RCA. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

This is one of the finest recordings of the Fifth to have come my way for some time...from the start one feels an impressive sense of conviction in the reading. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Though the plot is featherlight, Rota’s score, influenced by Poulenc and (much further back) Rossini, is delightful, a box of clever musical ideas...Light tenor Piotr Buszewski leads as the half-crazed... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the extended arias by Marta and Katja in Scene 6 are beautifully sung here by Nadja Stefanoff and Tetyana Miyus...Capriccio’s engineers have done a fine job in securing a good balance between... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Thanks to his penchant for writing short and succinct movements. Winterberg’s tough, gritty and uncompromising music never outstays its welcome. It certainly receives persuasive advocacy from... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

A former Music Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Noskowski was also one of the most prominent Polish composers of the late nineteenth century, but recordings of his music are few and far between.... — Presto Music, August 2023 More…