Browse: Schmelzer (composer)

Their performances apply conversational sophistication to contrapuntal intricacy, nowhere more so than in the softly rapturous slow passages during Sonata IX...These outstanding performances... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

Seventy minutes with Death for company may look like hard going but such is the expressive depth and profound consoling beauty of the works assembled here, and so committed and responsive the... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020 More…

While the schabernacks or ‘pranks’ here won’t quite have you guffawing, it’s certainly all delivered with a merry wink…[this repertoire is] rewarding thanks to Lüthi’s playful teasings-out of... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Ensemble Diderot’s invigorating approach has considerable appeal...Among the musical highlights is a sonata by Austrian Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Best known for his string writing, his music... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Incisive, rhythmically taut in fast movements, eloquently expressive in slow ones, Farley’s artistry is perfectly complimented by the suave sophistication of Orpheus Britannicus. And buttressed... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

an excellent collection of some of the most colourful and imitative instrumentals pieces written in the reign of Leopold I in Vienna, Salzburg and Rome … colourful playing, a rich recording to... — CD Review, 26th March 2015 More…