Browse: ECM (label)

Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could not... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The main attraction is Auerbach’s Sonata, the partnership between viola and piano more equal and richer in potential. Hauntingly beautiful. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

after decades of conducting the world's greatest orchestras, it's particularly touching that [Chung] should turn here to music of such prevailing intimacy. Though most of the repertoire is well-known,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

relaxed, vaguely ethnic, New Age background music in which one piece segues imperceptibly into the next and rough edges are smoothed away...listeners in search of a mood of limpid repose could... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

just hearing the music itself, regardless of this infectious, quick-witted performance, is a revelation. Although the Castello feels like the most important work on this disc, the sonatas of... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

Even in the hairiest passages of the Hammerklavier Sonata Op 106, Schiff's poise never deserts him, while the textural clarity, especially of the inner lines, is always a delight. — The Guardian, 31st October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

From the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and others, we now recognise the sound as a professional one: blend that hardly distinguishes between male and female voices; an ease with extremes... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Marsh plays to the Hilliards' strengths, throwing individual voices into high relief with chilling declamatory passages set against a mostly homophonic texture. The programme is driven by the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

After the tonal luminosity of the Bagatelles, the piercing dissonances at the opening of the Elegy exert a particularly poignant impact, as does The Messenger where the interaction between the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…