BEETHOVEN/KUHLAU - MARIANNA SHIRINYAN
BEETHOVEN/LISZT PASTORAL SYMPHONY - ASHLEY WASS
PROKOFIEV WAR SONATAS - BORIS GILTBURG
RAVEL/BLOCH/JANACEK - ASTRAND/SAL
BRAHMS - JONAS VITAUD
WINTERREISE - JAMES GILCHRIST, ANNA TILBROOK
WIDMUNG - NINO GVETADZE
VIENNA - THOMAS CARROLL
WINTER SKETCHES - BJARKE MOGENSEN
SCHWANENGESANG - JAMES GILCHRIST, ANNA TILBROOK
RHYTHM & TEXTURE - BRODSKY QUARTET
MILO - GUY JOHNSTON / KATHRYN STOTT
ST PETERSBURG - LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE
JOY IN THE MORNING - EX CATHEDRA / JEFFREY SKIDMORE
ST MATTHEW PASSION - EX CATHEDRA / JEFFREY SKIDMORE
DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN - JAMES GILCHRIST / ANNA TILBROOK
ROZSA / KORNGOLD VIOLIN CONCERTOS - MATTHEW TRUSLER / DÜSSELDORFER SYMPHONIKER / YASUO SHINOZAKI
PARIS - MAYA KOCH / JULIAN MILFORD
BLUES - MATTHEW TRUSLER / WAYNE MARSHALL
THE PITY OF WAR - MATTHEW TRUSLER / MARTIN ROSCOE / SAMUEL WEST

		MARIANNA SHIRINYAN BEETHOVEN/KUHLAU Classic FM John Suchet's CD of the Week 1 October 2012 Klassik Heute 9/10 stars
		ASHLEY WASS BEETHOVEN/LISZT PASTORAL SYMPHONY International Record Review November 2012 It is difficult to point to an orchestral ‘Pastoral’ more moving than this
		BORIS GILTBURG PROKOFIEV WAR SONATAS Gramophone Magazine February 2012 Editor's Choice Daily Telegraph
		CHRISTINA ASTRAND/PER SALO RAVEL/BLOCH/JANACEK BBC Music Magazine February 2012
		JONAS VITAUD BRAHMS BBC Music Magazine February 2012 Excellent disc... searching intelligence ... beautifully phrased and voiced Calum MacDonald Pizzicato January 2012 SUPERSONIC award
		JAMES GILCHRIST, ANNA TILBROOK WINTERREISE BBC Music Magazine CD of the Month You can download a free track from the magazine's playlist on iTunes by going to www.classical-music.com/iTunes Classical Music Magazine December 2011 Editor's Choice The Independent October 1-7, 2011 Album of the Week
		NINO GVETADZE WIDMUNG BBC Music Magazine November 2011 / Classic FM Magazine October 2011 The Independent August 27, 2011 Album of the Week Norman Lebrecht CD of the Week The young Georgian contender finds an edge of fire in the Liszt B-minor sonata and a deft caress in his B-minor ballade. Definitely one to hear live, though the record is a fine introduction to her pungent style.
		THOMAS CARROLL, LLYR WILLIAMS VIENNA The Sunday Times April 24, 2011 The Daily Telegraph May 5, 2011 Musicweb.com July 2011 Recording of the Month Definitive performances of ultimate beauty. My Disc of the Year.
		BJARKE MOGENSEN WINTER SKETCHES Norman Lebrecht's CD of the Week March 27, 2011 Remember Leif Ove Andsnes’s piano disc called The Long, Long Winter Night? This is the accordion equivalent – played, if that’s possible, with even greater virtuosity. Mogesen is amazing. He has stunning command of dynamics and an ability to create an atmosphere that pianists would kill for. Much of his material is Russian, recent and relatively obscure... But don’t be afraid of the dark. This is some of the most persuasive music making you will ever hear...
		JAMES GILCHRIST, ANNA TILBROOK SCHWANENGESANG The Sunday Times September 26, 2010
		BRODSKY QUARTET RHYTHM & TEXTURE The Strad recommends November 2010 Click here to read the complete review Norman Lebrecht CD of the Week August 8, 2010 It's so good to have the Brodskys back on record. In a field full of fine quartets, the [Brodsky Quartet] have always had an edge... ... After 38 years on the road they sound fresh as ever... ..Together, the works project an aesthetic that is pure Brodsky. They are played with elegant restraint, contemporary without forcing the point, and fervent to an extent that all you want to do when the disc ends is play it again.
		GUY JOHNSTON / KATHRYN STOTT MILO The New York Times October 31, 2010 gripping performance Classical Music Magazine May 22, 2010 2 page feature on Guy and his new album "Milo" The Observer May 16, 2010 real sensitivity The Times May 14, 2010 CD of the Week by Norman Lebrecht April 19, 2010 Mark-Anthony Turnage, 50 this year, is the most distinctive of British composers with an instantly recognisable sound. This disc is built around his music for cello and piano – a set of three lullabies and the captivating Milo... ... The cellist is the sweet-toned Guy Johnston and he is partnered by Katharine Stott who, in one of the companion pieces – the Benjamin Britten C major sonata of 1961 – achieves an ear-pricking bell-like effect on the piano to match the cello’s pizzicato. The remaining pieces on disc are by Britten’s teacher, Frank Bridge. Written just before and during the First World War, they are neither as penetrative as Elgar’s parallel cello reflections nor as pungent as Britten. All credit, though, to the small Orchid label that produced this thoughtful compilation, none of it obviously commercial yet, on second hearing, irresistible. Guy Johnson, it turns out, is godfather to baby Milo. Something more than music went into the making of this album.
		LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE ST PETERSBURG The Daily Telegraph 1 May 2010 CD of the Week ... this disc unearths some real rarities, which the Conchord Ensemble plays with an aplomb, sensibility and purposefulness that suggest a genuine enthusiasm rather than mere disinterment for the sake of being different... Geoffrey Norris The Observer 25 April 2010 highly entertaining, played with style and verve International Record Review June 2010 The London Conchord Ensemble puts us all in debt in offering this repertoire Classic FM Magazine July 2010 Pizzicato June 2010
		EX CATHEDRA / JEFFREY SKIDMORE JOY IN THE MORNING Classic FM Magazine Choir & Organ November/December 2009 my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 Birmingham Post 5 November 2009 an exhilarating mix of Christmas music from all periods and countries Musicweb-international.com 9 November 2009 ... it’s a great pleasure to welcome this new Christmas CD... ... The programme is wide-ranging and full of interest... ... The standard both of singing and playing is absolutely first rate throughout the programme. Factor in excellent recorded sound and documentation and you have a most enjoyable and enterprising Christmas offering from Ex Cathedra. The Christmas CD market is overflowing but this issue has a very strong claim indeed on the attention of collectors. John Quinn
		EX CATHEDRA / JEFFREY SKIDMORE JS BACH - ST MATTHEW PASSION BBC Music Magazine December 2009 Performance Recording
		JAMES GILCHRIST / ANNA TILBROOK SCHUBERT - DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN Diapason Magazine July-August 2011 Gramophone Magazine October 2009 Editor's Choice Classic FM Magazine November 2009 Editor's Choice BBC Music Magazine November 2009 Performance Recording "Cherwell" (Oxford University) one of the great recordings of Die Schöne Müllerin
		MATTHEW TRUSLER / DÜSSELDORFER SYMPHONIKER / YASUO SHINOZAKI ROZSA / KORNGOLD VIOLIN CONCERTOS Diapason Magazine July-August 2011 BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2009 BBC Music Choice Performance Recording Hotter than Heifetz? International Record Review November 2009 really outstanding violin playing Mail on Sunday 18 October 2009 OZartsreview 1 November 2009 unfailing beauty and clarity of tone www.scena.co.uk Lebrecht CDs of the Week October 2009 Two Korngolds and a piun-up violinist Virgin *** Orchid Like London buses, you can wait years for a Korngold concerto and then four turn up in a row. Nikolai Znaider (RCA) was sulky and Philippe Quint (Naxos) I haven’t heard, but both Renaud Capucon on Virgin and Matthew Trusler on Orchid bring fresh qualities to the work and good reason to reconsider its virtues. Capucon pitches the opening sweetness to perfection and underplays the finale’s recycled movie themes. Trusler takes a more nostalgic route, finding exquisite love and pain in Korngold’s yearnings for a vanished Vienna. Both are thoughtful, distinctive and engagingly personal. Capucon is disadvantaged by his paring – a solid account of the Beethoven concerto, conducted in Rotterdam by Yannick Nezet-Seguin – while Trusler in Dusseldorf (cond. Yasuo Shinozaki) offers the stunning and apt concerto by another film composer, Miklos Rozsa, as well two prime Heifetz encores. In Korngold, though, I cannot choose one over the other: I’m keeping them both. Norman Lebrecht
		PARIS - THE SPIRIT OF DIAGHILEV, COCTEAU AND STRAVINSKY MAYA KOCH / JULIAN MILFORD The Strad April 2007 Paris Strad Selection’ of the month Sumptuously engineered and glowingly played, this recital disc simply oozes class...
		MATTHEW TRUSLER / WAYNE MARSHALL BLUES The Daily Telegraph 13 January 2007 Classical CD of the Week Time Out London 13-20 December 2006 TYCOON AND TUNESMITH TRUSLER Trusler's an apostle of commercial savvy in the arts... The Strad January 2007 Strad Selection’ of the month Gramophone December 2006 ... dazzling playing... Manchester Evening News 23/11/2006 It's all life-affirming, wonderful music.... It's fun time in the style of Marshall...
		THE PITY OF WAR MATTHEW TRUSLER / MARTIN ROSCOE / SAMUEL WEST Daily Telegraph 5/11/05 a powerfully evocative set Independent 8/11/05 Independent on Sunday 6/11/05 Classic FM Magazine January 2006 Issue 'The Pity of War' was also chosen as one of the week's 5 best CDs by the Observer.

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