Reviews

Critics' Choice 2021: 'Antonini and his crack period band outgun all the competition in colour, operatic brio and a twinkling sense of fun. My feel-good recording of the year.'

Best Albums of 2021: 'There's plenty of emotion at play in Chopin's 24 well-known and poetic piano preludes. But Uzbek-born pianist Behzod Abduraimov goes his own way with dark, strong and sensitive interpretations of the sometimes quiet, sometimes fast, forward-looking pieces.'

'If you like your Bach on modern piano, this surely must be the sort of performance you would want ....'

'Listen to how wonderful it is to immerse oneself in fantastic music, be it from the 18th century or the 21st! Thank you for this inspiring trip!'

'The orchestral sonority that can be achieved when the players immerse themselves in Schubert's cosmos is demonstrated in a congenial recording by the Fitzwilliam Quartet … the Brits succeed in breathtakingly dense, dynamic conversation.'

'Yet this captivating recital really goes into overdrive with Ravel’s Sonata, an elusive masterwork whose relative coolness of expression is here embraced with an alluring suppleness and tonal sophistication that ravishes the senses ... More please!'

'Pierre Dumoussaud and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine respond by making their Pelléas a kind of extended dream, with the score flowing like water around the characters … It’s very beautiful ...'

'CPE Bach’s conversational suppleness positively beams in the face of the more sober, twice-reimagined (Mozart and Café Zimmermann) excerpt from The Art of Fugue.'

'Robin Ticciati, however, succeeds here in a downright stellar performance.'