Reviews

'Crowe’s singing is expressive at the lower tessitura but higher emotional content of Berg’s youthful songs ...'

'La Ragione nevertheless elicits something astonishing from the instruments, evoking a summery lightness that knows how to capture this music.'

'The icing on the cake of this exceptional album is - I cannot emphasise it often enough - the natural power and even in the elegiac moments tension-filled conducting of Julien Chauvin, who makes these French opera jewels sparkle with diamond clarity ... Stupendous!'

Choice: 'The perfect cohesion of the ensemble, the collective breath and the intensity of the interpretations, not to mention the rarity of the repertoire, are the virtues of this disc.'

Choc de Classica: 'Appl and Baillieu transform the tragic wandering of the Winter Journey into a delicate and enchanting flight, like footsteps on the snow.'

'This is how Nicolas Altstaedt and Pekka Kuusisto hear it, fiery, arduous, daring everything, to the point that I have the feeling of discovering its true character. A major record.'

'This is truly a must-have disc for those who want to explore piano duet music from the crossroads of the Classical and Romantic eras.'

'Asmik Grigorian has succeeded in creating an all-round convincing debut album ... Grigorian shapes these miniatures with great sensitivity and passion.'

'Fournel distinguishes himself admirably here, and I look forward to more Brahms from him.'