Browse: Chamber, Villa-Lobos (composer)

This is a gleaming and brilliant album that doesn’t fail to awaken the senses to the exhilarating world of un-adulterated acoustic sound. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Baldini produces an alluring tone that taps into the natural resonances of his instrument, and phrases with a natural instinct for cantabile espressivo. His sensitive and responsive partner,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

An enjoyable tour of the Brazilian’s concertos and chamber works including the lesser-known, winsome Harmonica Concerto. The guitar Concerto gets a fine advocate in soloist Manuel Barrueco. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

How many Chôros are there? Fourteen numbered examples (with two claimed as “lost”), two Chôrosbis, a Wind Quintet en forme de Chôros and a con- cluding (!) choral-and-orchestral “Introduction... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Bream's sampler shows his passionate best. The (complete) Aranjuez Concerto is unsurpassed; Falla's Miller's Dance blazes; 'impossible' Rodrigo dazzles. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Throughout there are fireworks and much technical skill...Meyers’s artistry, however, has its glutinous side. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The cellists of the São Paulo SOP give measured and beautifully poised accounts of Nos 1 and 5 and the performers catch the intimacy one expects of the medium. Donna Brown is in fine voice in... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2007 More…

The pleasures lie largely in hearing infinite subtleties of touch and expression vividly caught in Orchid’s clear, all-embracing recording. Cello pizzicato passages alone make the ears tingle;... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…