Gramophone Awards, Biber (composer)

Though there are versions that have a weightier choral sound, the advantage of this one is that the Requiem’s words (which so fuelled the composer’s creative imagination) and all the details... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

it stretches the instrument and the violinist to the limit. For this recording Rachel Podger uses the same instrument throughout, putting it through the pain, as part of the fascination for... — CD Review, 17th October 2015 More…

Monica Huggett's arrival at these marvels of the 17th-century violin repertoire has the authority of a player to the manner born. She has a strong but fluent technique, and produces from her... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…