Browse: ECM (label)

Holliger continues to amaze. Now in his eighties, he still finds the time and the stamina alongside his composing and conducting to extend his reputation as the foremost oboist of the past 60... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

You won’t be surprised to learn there’s nothing musically flashy or flippant here; no bumble bees flying, for instance. Instead Schiff has put each of his sonata programmes under the microscope... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The whole programme flows together beautifully and the Trio's diction and tone perfectly combines celestial purity and perfection with human warmth and vulnerability. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Juliane Banse brings to all of them her intense voice, focused and lovely...and makes them as memorable as anyone I've ever heard...whatever the merits of this neglected music turn out in the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These are superlative performances of these extremely familiar works...The give and take between Fellner and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra is uncanny, in that they seem to be questioning or... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Concerto finds Schumann staring into the abyss, but its slow movement, in particular, has an otherworldly atmosphere that is profoundly affecting. Carolin Widmann and the Chamber Orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Levin fully understands the whole work's structure and his fingers to all that could be asked of them. He is alive, too, to the poetry of the atmospheric pieces and, with Ya-Fei Chuang, gives... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…