Browse: Hänssler (label)

For melodic ease and cheerful spirits, his Second Cello Concerto runs Haydn’s very close . Adagios a re soulful; concertante works showcase soloists well. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023 More…

Thank heavens for the Heidelbergers’ Haydn project. Quite apart from their valuable reinterpretations of the later, more familiar works, the attention they can pay to these marginal pieces as... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 More…

These are assiduously prepared performances for those who like their Bach to be skilfully framed and slightly middle-of-the-road. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

the soundworld here is a rich, late Romantic expressionism – beautifully rendered by the warm, full sound of the Sinfonietta Riga and some committed solo performances. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mayer’s lively Sixth is full of both charm and wit – check out the mousey squeaks in the finale, for instance. The ‘Military’ Third, meanwhile, wears its nickname lightly, but is a similarly... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The album’s opening work, Japanese Songs, proved her gateway to composing professionally...This richly satisfying work, which teeters between late Romanticism and more challenging modernist tonalities,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Minettis show a marked aff inity for the soundworld of 20th-century string quartet repertoire, rising to the Berg’s tortured passion and performing with characterful range and versatility... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The motets by Johann Christoph Altnickol (1720–1759) featured here are considerably more florid in style than J. C. F. Bach’s and have more harmonic variety. These performances employ female... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

the Russian conductor Daniel Raiskin and the Slovak Philharmonic all feel this music instinctively. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Quintet successfully mixes late-Romantic expansiveness with more angular touches. The Violin Sonata is a more straightforwardly lyrical affair. Both make strong cases for the music of Johanna... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Zimmermann's CD is well recorded and sometimes historically informed in its orchestral textures...And he always gives the music detail and direction, though the slow movements are more cushioned,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Helvi Leiviskä’s Piano Concerto of 1935 makes no huge stylistic leaps from, say, Brahms’s Second, but builds interesting dialogues for soloist and orchestra. The First Symphony (1947) trades... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

If you like your Mozart safe and middle-of-the-road, yet stylish and sufficiently subtle, Muller may be the answer to your prayers. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…

The Avita Duo really dig into Auerbach’s music, drawing out the myriad moods of these two cycles. Written in 1999, the colourful 24 Preludes and Fugues have a post-Prokofiev, post-Shostakovich... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the audible relish with which the Heidelbergers attack them shines vivid new light upon each symphony. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…