"Otter is in absolute top form - you feel almost as if you could be right in the room with the singer." —Classics Today
"Rilling is thrilling — investing the music with dramatic intensity without sacrificing any of its lyrical beauty." —Fanfare
"Bezaly's playing has been dazzling audiences, critics and composers alike in the past few years!" —Gramophone Magazine
The Society continues its survey of the stimulating series of Bach cantatas featuring Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan with [more]
"Fear not — this performance never lacks muscle, and the grand choruses are magnificent." —CD Now (of Messiah)
"Barry Wordsworth draws warm and brilliant performances from the BBC Concert Orchestra, helped by a clear, full-bodied recording." —Gramophone Magazine
"For unapologetic bravura combined with intimate poetry, a complete empathy with Liszt's intentions and full-blooded recorded sound, Cohen and his cohorts are hard to beat." —Gramophone Magazine
"Predictably the playing of the group is distinguished … and persuasive." —Gramophone Magazine
It was in late 1853 that a young 20-year-old Johannes Brahms turned up at Robert Schumann's home in Düsseldorf with a messy folder of manuscripts and [more]
"I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses." —Arthur Honegger (train enthusiast and composer)