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This is quite simply an outstandingly magical disc. From the very first notes one is totally captivated by the fantastic richness of the sound produced by the combination of the viola d'amore... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the luminous playing of the opening of Berg's Sonata Op. 1 tells us this is a pianist of rare sensitivity...Varjon's probing approach reveals the finest shades of harmonic colouring and places... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This programme represents a retreat from the remote cloister where for so long Arvo Pärt invited us to join him, a definite shift from the aerated tintinabuli. The purity remains, so do the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Várjon moves swiftly between numbers, joining the puzzle-pieces without ever giving us the complete picture…but there’s no doubt that [his] connecting intelligence makes each set as a whole... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If we think we hear Bach at one moment, then Mahler at the next, and then Widmann himself, then we’d be right: it’s a bit like being presented with the entire range of German art music in one... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Kanchieli's position as a powerful and individual voice is becoming more apparent with each vividly recorded issue in ECM's continuing series — BBC Music Magazine, April 2005 More…

To say that Vladímir Godár is a typical ECM discovery is certainly not to diminish either him or ECM. This Slovak composer uses a vocabulary in the works recorded here that will inevitably recall... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…