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This disc is special. Whether it’s the frisson of live performance or the fact that Blomstedt came to these scores late in life and is radiating the joy of discovery, I can’t say. What I do know... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

...the playing by the Stenhammar Quartet is absolutely ravishing. — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pure post-Romantic Scandi loveliness – great tunes, lush orchestrations and a fun fugue. What more could you want of a dull January day? The Antwerps are on form. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this new recording is more romantic and rhapsodic...This is music not just for Nordic specialists and should be investigated. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

A charming and repeatable release where No. 6, especially, deserves to be better known. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Camilla Tilling uses her light lyric soprano to trace the echoes and glints of folksong in the melodic shape and harmonic underpinning of many of these songs of the North. Minimal vibrato and... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

At first glance this might seem a curious concept, Swedish folksongs as sung - exceptionally so, let me say straightaway - mostly unaccompanied by a modest chorus through some of which jazz improvisations... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 More…