Karen Geoghegan

Bassoons rarely equal best-sellers: that could be about to change… Chandos have a real find on their hands with Karen Geoghegan. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 More…

The performances are pretty astringent, Juanjo Mena persuading the BBC Philharmonic to play as if they were a period orchestra, with wiry lean string tone and rasping woodwind. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Schartz] catches the atmospheric nocturnal feeling of the music...Most enjoyable is the disc's most unfamiliar work: Roland Wiltgen's apres la nuit...it not only gives the feeling of being... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…