Browse: Purcell, D (composer)

Approaching the repertoire with a shared musical vision, they produce ravishingly expressive accounts from curtain up to lights down...De Swarte plays a noble Jacob Stainer violin from 1665 (formerly... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

Christopher Hogwood makes us realise that for all the constraints, this score isn't inherently small-scale and warrants all the subtlety of colour that can be achieved using 12 soloists and a... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Purcell crowns all with a sonata from each of his two collections of three parts and four parts. These are splendid pieces in which the idiom of Italy and France can be heard respectively…La... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The playing is admirably neat - intonation virtually flawless, ensemble taut, and decorations stylish. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…