‘All his [Juan José Mudarra Gámiz] performances are shot through with brilliance and conviction.’ – Gramophone

‘Marek Štilec leads with well-jedged tempos and brings plenty of life to the music—energy without crudeness’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘First rate recording of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘mini opera’ Aristea, with much enthusiastic singing and playing.’ – Pizzicato

‘[Ariel] is a virtuoso performance, sung with sensuous beauty’
– Gramophone

‘Andrew Matthews-Owen is a superlative pianist’ – MusicWeb International

‘There’s extraordinary depth of feeling here, and David Hill, the Bach Choir and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra cover an immense range, captured by excellent recording engineering, from blazing anger to almost impossibly quiet grief.’ – Sinfini Music

Performance: Recording:
‘Vividly performed, well recorded.’ – BBC Music Magazine

‘superlatively interpreted by Myron Silberstein’ – Fanfare

‘It is a bravura performance...and extends a powerful invitation to the music world to appreciate a woefully overlooked composer who should stand with the other greats of his time.’ – Strings Magazine

‘This opera is screaming for a new staging. ’ – The New York Times

‘A much recorded piece, but this is the equal of anything out there.’
– BBC Music Magazine

‘Without minimizing the [Second] music’s violent energy, Alsop plays the piece with a vivid sense of its long melodic lines.’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘Another fine audio-only Blu-ray of Prokofiev symphonies with Marin Alsop.’ – Audiophile Audition

‘powerful and gripping performance of the Thirteenth Symphony’
– ClassicsToday.com

‘a performance crackling with electricity’ – Financial Times

‘sensitive and stylish’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘Clarity with power, clear balances and ferocity combined: Riccardo Chailly’s latest Mahler Five surely has the best of all possible worlds for this comprehensive drakness-to-light epic.’ – BBC Music Magazine

‘This is an enthralling performance of Mahler Fifth, dauntingly intense, with much dramatic force and an impressive dynamic range.’ – Pizzicato

‘The conducting displays elegance to complement the score’s exhilarating power.’ – Fanfare

‘The sight and sound of these youngsters playing this great music with such complete commitment is heartwarming’ – Gramophone

‘With its mix of simplicity and complexity, Love Fail is both haunting and thought-provoking.’ – Gramophone

‘genially relaxed renderings of the Bach fare and searching readings of the arcane Busoni bits’ – Fanfare

‘The playing of the New York Philharmonic throughout is fresh and unaffected, full of spirit and drive.’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘Alan Gilbert continues his exceptional SACD series of the symphonies of Carl Nielsen, performed with high energy and technical brilliance by the New York Philharmonic’ – Allmusic.com

‘what a stunning beauty of a piece it is’ – Fanfare

‘It is not only an improbable journey but a compelling and inspirational one.’ – Gramophone

‘these lovely preludes are a brilliant introduction and any lover of piano music will find this CD a thoroughly rewarding experience. Mikael Ayrapetyan plays all of it with due reverence for his compatriot’s music’
– MusicWeb International

‘wholly committed performance, extremely well played, and brilliantly engineered in SACD surround sound’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘this production is stunning in its own right’
– Audiophile Audition

‘Trio Hormus prove that they are more than up to the job, which they do with great virtuosity. What’s more they sound as if they are really enjoying themselves.’ – MusicWeb International

‘Manfred Honeck twirls us through a winning programme with every solo beautifully pointed, every transition perfectly judged, while his orchestra responds as if he’d been conducting them for generations’ – Gramophone