SACD, Franck, C (composer)

Isserlis and regular partner Connie Shih are perfect hosts, ensuring it all flows with deceptive ease, setting the scene with the wistful nobility of Hahn’s Variations chantantes sur un air... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording More…

These first-rate chamber musicians play these three late works with a rare sensitivity of understanding and delicacy of nuance. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Swedish-based Israeli has phenomenal strength and versatility, combined with crystalline clarity of sound. Her 24-carat gold, custom-built Muramatsu flute is reminiscent of James Galway,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. — Sunday Times, 24th June 2018 More…

Steinbacher and Robert Kulek give elegant and tasteful accounts, Steinbacher's crystalline high register shining particularly in the first movement of the Franck...Kulek is a sure-footed partner... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

…Schwarzburg is evidently in harmony with Argerich, with each seemingly daring the other to greater extremes of tempo. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…