Chandos

A magnificently realistic recorded performance which features an orchestra whose playing seems to go from strength to strength...this is a thoroughly engaging performance which will delight... — MusicWeb International, January 2015 More…

As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…

The Doric Quartet play with passion, but there is relaxation, even wit, in both these works, and the Doric seem to be eager to stress the prevailing darkness at the expense of warmth and lyricism,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Part of the success of the concertos performance certainly lies in Michael McHale’s high-energy fingers, confidently shifting between glittering decorations and bravura solo spurts. Meanwhile,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

On this evidence, Haydn’s brand of roguish inventiveness materialised early…The recording finds a natural-sounding perspective for two very different kinds of sonority: the interaction of organ... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Matthias Bamert and the London Mozart Players produce splendidly alert and stylish performances. No one interested in the byways of the late 18th-century repertoire should fail to explore... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[the Third Symphony is] an immensely attractive work, the folk melodies with their distinctly Belorussian and Polish inflections skilfully woven into the symphonic fabric and clothed in imaginative... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pike immediately evokes memories of Heifetz with her silver purity of sound and quicksilver agility, inflected by a narrow, medium-fast vibrato. What sets her apart, however, is the gentle cushioning... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing is fresh and lively — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Järvi and his Bergen players sound most happy together, playing with a fluency suggestive of more joint live performances than they could pssobly have had. The engineering supports them at... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…