Browse: Hänssler (label)

The biggest challenge is surmounted in Canticum Sacrum, a work conceived for the ample acoustics of St Marks Church in Venice. In this performance its austere beauty and grandeur really come... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

What draws these disparate strands so effectively together is the excellent singing of the SWR Vocal Ensemble under Marcus Creed...this release, performed with real polish and recorded in a suitably... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

An attractive programme of 20th-century American music, moments of choral weight and exposed fragility alike approached with great individuality. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2014 More…

Unlike most of their peers, Meta4 have found their way to the particular world of musicality that Shostakovich inhabits...Listen to the highly contrapuntal central section of the first movement... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

a fine showcase for an extremely gifted violinist. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2022 More…

the recording is particularly effective in its balancing of the disparities, always managing to convey the forceful lyricism that makes Schoenberg's fervent response to the biblical drama so... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

The Concert Suite gets a stunning performance here. Rische projects his role perfectly, while the small band from the Deutsche SO of Berlin is tightly disciplined. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

At some point… every great violinist must square up to the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas. Tetzlaff has finally bitten the bullet - magnificently. Among other modern instrumental versions Julia... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Baroque Soloists yield a cut-glass sound on modernised period instruments. As one might expect, these are honed, pristine accounts with scrupulous attention... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The orchestra sounds almost human in its emotional involvement, while the choral singing is of the highest order. Add the beautiful solo performances and it’s impossible to recommend this highly... — Classic FM Magazine, March 2009 More…

the combination of his muscly, forward-moving approach, with not an ounce of fat on it, and perhaps most stunning engineering accorded to the master orchestrator yet, mean that both the mock-epic... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this latest recital from Hänssler is a classic in every way...Banse consistently uses her exceptionally sweet and pure voice with extraordinary precision, hitting exposed top notes effortlessly... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

This recording…is ablaze. …Bruce Ford…can do both amorous and heroic, and blends well with Laura Claycomb's spirited Teresa. The outstanding characterisation is Monica Groop's Ascanio, a splendidly... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

He presides proudly over this orchestra of outstanding brass and woodwind players in these polished and praiseworthy performances. Their elevated level of ensemble and is especially noteworthy. — MusicWeb International, March 2023 More…

An excellently played and recorded album. — MusicWeb International, July 2019 More…

Plath’s tone is rich and warm; his quiet playing maintains a solid core of tone; and his high notes span an expressive range from haunting vulnerability to assertive clarion calls. Triendl is... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…