Reviews

'Peter Whelan’s alert direction ensures an effortless fluency that strikes a fruitful rapport between the well-matched vocal quartet and instrumental playing instinct with freshness and vitality.'

'All around brilliant, every single one of them ...

'The Argentinian Nelson Goerner ... not only masters the many technical difficulties of Iberia but also gives us interpretations that are idiomatic, sharply delineated and finely nuanced.'

'Both works are of astonishing quality.'

'... one quality that also marks Bach’s solo violin music as significant, namely an ability to stretch the instrument’s expressive and colouristic potential way beyond imaginable limitations.'

'Superbly realized and recorded … this is a diverse and revealing sequence of pieces ...'

'Brazilian Impressions is given a persuasive reading, the slithering clarinets and bassoon eliciting a shudder in the central movement, which depicts the collection of venomous snakes Respighi encountered on a visit to the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo.'

'Whole worlds are packaged into each of the nineteen songs on this unmissable debut recital from Grigorian.'

Orchestral Choice: 'Järvi has long championed his homeland’s orchestral composers, and the combination of his tautly expressive Estonian Festival Orchestra (EFO) and the five creatively diverse voices here is captivating.'