SACD, Britten (composer)

The Emperors bring energy, commitment, real understanding of the idiom and finesse to all these works... if you want everything Britten wrote for the medium – and it is all worth hearing – then... — MusicWeb International, December 2022 More…

…Tatjana Masurenko… reading of Walton's masterpiece combines impressive technical acumen and no mean interpretative flair. The NDR Radiophilharmonie, too, respond with polish and keen vigour... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 More…

Nisbeth’s tone isn’t especially lush or velvety but it’s endlessly nuanced, and Forsberg, too, commands an enormously subtle tonal palette…Fresh, thoughtful perspectives on some ravishing –... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

With the Emperor Quartet's quick reactions, the [Simple Symphony] takes on a new guise in this intimate form, at once spikily alive in the outer movements and confiding of private secrets at... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

The Emperor Quartet gives a stupendous rendition of the Second Quartet, nuancing it with a fabulously imagined range of colour; it comes across as not only powerful but visionary...There are... — Classic FM Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All this music is superbly played here, with the sensitive oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk dominating as he must, and the anthology, published at a time when we are all remembering the war, has an... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

it is perceptive of the Emperor Quartet to include the very early Alla marcia...It is most definitely allied to the First Quartet here - their youthful and appropriately caustic playing of the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…

Throughout the programme, well recorded in a Copenhagen church, Petri plays with immaculate tuning and finger technique, crisp tonguing and well-shaed melodic lines; Esfahani matches her with... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…