"As close to perfection as we have any right to expect. A 10." —Classics Today
"I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music." —Vladimir Ashkenazy
Temirkanov's powerful reading revels in the music's grim drama. -Classics Today
Last year, the Society issued the first five volumes in a series of recordings that will collectively produce the Complete Keyboard Sonatas of [more]
On May 6, 1848, the British newspaper The Musical World wrote, "Now that Mendelssohn is dead, Spohr holds the position of the first composer of the day, without a possible [more]
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"Every so often a CD appears which, by means of some interpretative insight, changes our view of a piece of music. This disc changes our whole perspective in a wholly different sense, for it gives us a glimpse of two familiar masterpieces in the making." —Gramophone
"It has become evident that this Estonian-born Swedish composer is a figure of major stature, certainly a far more substantial symphonist than one would have possibly guessed on the strength of the occasional broadcast performance." —Gramophone