CD, Schoenberg (composer)

What gives pleasure here are generally those works convincingly performed by the forces their creators originally intended. There are muscular, imaginative and witty solo pieces by Rózsa and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Azkoul and his group feel fresh, dissolving a lot of conventions in both programming and performance. Not everything works, but ‘Through the Night’ proposes a model for a viable, youthful future... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

…a generous offering to an artist whose own largesse, of voice and personality, has won him over many years now a special place in the affection of music lovers, particularly in his native country. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

This performance of Schoenberg's twelve-tone comic opera about marital fidelity, conducted by Michael Gielen with the Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, is the only one currently available... — James Longstaffe, Presto Music, August 2014 More…

Gardner is swift but never careless [in Pelleas]...Erwartung holds exceptional appeal for Sara Jakubiak’s intense restraint, her conversational familiarity with the text and the luminous rapture... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

the mezzo-soprano on excellent form in a fascinating programme … Katz is a consistently birlliant accompanist and the programme is as absorbing as it is enterprising. Nobody who admires this... — International Record Review, December 2012 More…