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
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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
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The Daily Telegraph
May 5, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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Pizzicato
June 2010
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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.