SACD, Dvořák (composer)

If I were to sum up the special quality she brings then it would be her purity and directness. Take the Elgar title-piece, which comes without a hint of whimsy, coquettishness or vulnerability... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

The Ragazze Quartet...[favour] keen inflections, luminous textures (especially in the first movement [of the Dvorak] and a consistent sense of mobility...Their biggest strength is an added quota... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

The Eschers’ new album, beautifully recorded in SACD, contains much fine playing by that young group. They are particularly a well-attuned to the Tchaikovsky, not only delivering a gently melancholic... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Irnberger, together with his Czech colleagues, achieves here some inspiring results. Benefitting from crisp, beautifully balanced sound, the players of the Prague Philharmonia, particularly... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

The excellent Sitkovetsky Trio play [the Dvorak] beautifully. Their account of the Smetana trio is also superb: the two strings, which sound slightly backward in the Dvorak recording, sing out... — Sunday Times, 28th September 2014 More…

The SACD sound is first-class and the booklet notes by both artists attractive, not least in drawing attention to the great artists of the past whose performances and arrangements are saluted... — MusicWeb International, November 2018 More…