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There’s an impressive level of excellence throughout, though Swensen is adaptable to moods between and within concertos…I love his natural way with slow movements, especially Mendelssohn’s and... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya are superb advocates blending virtuosity and understated elegance in performances that truly inhabit the music. For some ears the 1848 Pleyel on which... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are first-rate; one especially notes that the choir’s diction remains intelligible even in a somewhat reverberant acoustic with accompanying instruments. — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2024 More…

the Scottish-based choir once more brings a rare beauty and depth of sound to MacMillan’s radiant music. At the album’s heart are the five Culham Motets...Previously unrecorded, the cycle makes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc is a treasure trove of world premieres, exploring the musician’s double life as both composer and virtuoso performer…The Australian violinist Sophie Gent takes the Dubourg role throughout... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

I can’t completely shake off my own intermittent frustrations. But those willing to take Boesch on his own, idiosyncratic terms – song as heightened speech – should find much to enjoy and ponder. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

While Michael Barenboim’s approach is untypical of what might be thought of as wistful English tradition, it nonetheless has impressive strengths of its own…Besides superb technical command,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…