CD, Schoenberg (composer)

I am happy to report that it more than fulfils the highest expectations...This very distinguished recording should not be missed by anyone interested in fine piano-playing and heartfelt poetic... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

...a solid and satisfying five-hour survey. — Choir & Organ, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie] calls for considerable virtuosity from each of its 15 solo players, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under Heinz Holliger acquits itself very well...Holliger... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Much thought and care have gone into devising this musical love letter to Vienna from Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021 More…

Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Whether in the dreaminess of Delius’s post-Fauréan miniatures, in the relentlessness of the hard-edged Klein, in the intimacy of the Mompou or in the ironic cheek of the stylised dances by Jaques-Dalcroze,... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…

A suitably bleak performance of this harrowing piece for narrator, male-voice choir, and orchestra. Claudio Abbado conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, and Gottfried Hornik narrates. It took me... — James Longstaffe, Presto Music, August 2014 More…