Browse: Deutsche Grammophon (label)

Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) evoke the effervescent, restless, driven essence of Mendelssohn, often almost to perfection. The scherzo of the Scottish Symphony with its... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

You need not only a sensitivity to the special string warmth but also an ideal flexibility for the tempo rubato implied when not explicitly requested...Nézet-Séguin does, in spades...Nor is this... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Leningrad Symphony was composed in haste as the Nazis sieged and bombarded the city (in 1941). It caused an immediate sensation, but posterity has been less enthusiastic. What business has... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Esfahani's contributions are the extraordinary range and delicacy of his touch and his scrupulous attention to matching phrasing. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016 More…

Schubert’s adorable Trout Quintet emerges as more of a shark, or at least a dolphin…But it is emphatically domestic music, and the thing that strikes you as soon as this disc starts is the dynamic... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Sokolov is now on a don't-touch-me pinnacle...the two concertos here present the zenith of his art. An ideal partnership with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Trevor Pinnock's direction performing... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

he really is phenomenal: this music seems to flow out of him with such relaxed and elegant perfection — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…