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Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The sustained line in the 'Laudate Dominum' by Mozart is amazing, especially given the sedate pace, and her intonation is flawless throoughout...If this collection of titles seems like a bit... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic yearning... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The performance from these Latvian musicians is as soulful as could be imagined...[Plainscapes] – with exquisite gradations of vibrato from the two strings – is invested with rare space, profundity... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2020 More…

Graham Ross judges the spacious juxtapositions of movement and silence exquisitely, the Dmitri Ensemble’s explosion of energy in the third interlude being simultaneously surprising yet entirely... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The emotional core of what in the 1970s would have been called a ‘concept album’ is a gripping performance of Bach’s epic D minor Chaconne…in which Samuelsen exchanges the dogged intensity of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…