Browse: Mhairi Lawson (soprano)

You’re in safe hands here. Arcangelo bring their Baroque expertise to this pristine interpretation of Handel’s Brockes Passion. The soloists are fabulous, particularly Sandrine Piau, who shimmers... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a delightful vignette of 18th-century Venetian nightlife...Lawson is, in turn, a gondola-borne singer...equally at home in the simplest syllabic songs, genlte cantabile and, at the end, a sparkling... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Mead] offers articulate readings of the cantatas, his voice (with its faint echoes of the young Andreas Scholl) is beautifully controlled, its reedy, instrumental quality yielding lovely dialogues... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

These mostly unfamiliar pieces make highly enjoyable listening, especially when played with the natural exuberance that La Serenissima bring to them. Legrenzi's dances are catchy, Navara's fleshed-out... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 More…

The dramatic cantata Apollo e Dafne is an obvious choice for Ensemble Marsyas’s first venture into vocal music. It oozes the sort of vibrant woodwind writing that is meat and drink to bassoonist... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Mhairi Lawson sings with secure intonation, expressive sensibility and pleasing warmth of colour. Chandler is the solo violinist in four strongly contrasted concertos… In two of them he is... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Clare Wilkinson] compares him to Finzi, Gurney and Quilter. There are, however, elements of expressionism in his music, an emotional concentration and a sharp sense of irony that make him at... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…