Brahms - Ständchen, Op. 106 No. 1

Rudolf Buchbinder approaches playing the transcriptions with the same care that Reger must have taken to make them; the interpretations sound, however, if not exactly perfunctory, then often... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Connolly woos her audience with the calling-card for any and every mezzo: Haydn's dramatic cantata, Arianna a Naxos. And every second of its nervous and emotional life - its hopes, fears and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Fleming’s delightful selection of Brahms songs and Schumann’s Frauenliebe und-leben aren’t presented with the folk-like simplicity one might expect. This approach is suffused with late Romanticism,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

stylistic approaches to Hande's Giulio Cesare may have moved on...but her Lieder singing...remains treasurable in its tonal and textual expertise. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…