Browse: Orchestral, Gretry (composer)

…a wonderful odyssey through late Baroque to early Romantic French opera. Gens's agile voice is the perfect vehicle to cope with these emotional extremes, from the enchanting to the chilling.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Van Mechelen pays fitting tribute to Legros, focusing on tasteful lyricism and beauty rather than on virtuosic display...He is at his best as the pastoral lover, when the luminous timbre of his... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Piau negotiates with true French panache both the vocal and emotional highs and lows. Her voice is as sensual as Piaf, poetic as Greco, and with a chameleon-like sensitivity to the dramatic context.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Allegro con brio is what Mozart asks for in the first movement of the Symphony, and that’s what you get, with the music speeding off the blocks like Usain Bolt...The dramatic style of playing... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The RPO revels in the swift changes of instrumentation and the brief, quiet solos are brought off tenderly. — classicalsource.com, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These players are truly inside the music, though, even if the forces deployed are a touch meagre...Karthäuser is the suitably dramatic soprano in arias by Sacchini, Gluck, Lemoyne, Vogel and... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…