Browse: Chaplin, C (composer)

You don’t have to be a fan of string quartets or the World Cup to love the Quatuor Ebène’s laidback exploration of popular music written in or inspired by Brazil — The Times, 24th May 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This collection of encores from the celebrated Bryn Terfel is certainly not short on showmanship, but is at its strongest where the encore is presented less as grand finale and more as a moment... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Capuçon accordingly produces an elegantly sustained, warm sound, inflected by a mediumpaced, medium-width vibrato, and phrases everything to exquisite perfection…Some may prefer something a little... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

these guys obviously swing and rock in their bones, with none of the embarrassingly trammelled, self-conscious posturing that often characterises the efforts of classically trained musicians... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wagner’s interpretations are elegant and sensitive, betraying no hint of his instrument’s awkward bulk, but there are few faster or energetic pieces to balance a programme of unrelenting lyricism. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Thanks to some canny work by the sound engineers, the potentially lopsided combination of trumpet and string quintet works surprigingly well. Leleu himself brings a charming lilt to these familiar... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…