Browse: Nils Mönkemeyer (viola)

The Huelgas Ensemble use two or more voices per part in accordance with the size of Daser’s own court chapel choir and this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The range of sounds [Mönkemeyer] draws from his instrument is never less than compelling, and is matched by Meyer’s mellifluous clarinet and Youn’s subtle touch…the Kegelstatt should be in every... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

It’s a luminous and atmospheric project, full of long, sonorous lines and warm tones, and recorded in reverberant surroundings. Guaranteed to take the listener to calm and serene places. — BBC Music Magazine, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The sound of it is different from the earlier recording, of course, even though perhaps only the oboes are easily recognisable as modern rather than period…The standard of playing of the Berliners,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

By the time ‘Rococo’ ends, Schultze’s sparky concerto taking us as close to the Classical era as the recorder can, you truly feel as though you’ve been taken on a beautiful musical journey — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…