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Dukas's E flat minor Sonata (1900) is a rare (the only?) French example of the form from this period. Lasting more than 45 minutes, each of its four movements is underpinned by almost unremitting... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These masterly performances under the baton of George Benjamin here provide the focus of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's inventive tribute to the composer, captured live at concerts during... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The French Romantic sensibility is clearly audible across this beautifully played selection: texture and atmosphere are everything, tension ebbs and flows. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I think it is the middle tableau, ‘Jeux de vagues’, where the philosophy of both conductor and players really comes into its own. It is, in a word, scintillating: wonderfully rhythmic with crystal... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Hervé Niquet and his forces are superb guides through this repertory, little of which has previously appeared on disc…orchestral textures are admirably lucid, the choral singing beautifully focused... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…