Browse: Instrumental, Honegger (composer)

Taken at face value, the order and selection of works seems entirely random…However, the eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces.... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The familiar here appears in unusual contexts and alongside a scattering of rarities. The performers are at one in their fluency, delicate rubato and avoidance of Anglo-Saxon archness, within... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Honegger Sonatine… is despatched with splendid brio, and the off-the-wall recitatives in the last movement are hilarious. …they play the Ravel as a big work, with fierce accents and wide... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The transfers are more than satisfactory. An extremely fine collection, much to be recommended, and not only to the aficionado. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2023 More…

He plays the Fantaisie sur des rythmes flamenco with great temperament. The Eight Preludes, dedicated to Dinu Lipatti, are very beautiful and he explores them in depth to make the "expression... — Pizzicato, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Most of these pieces are light, even frothy morceaux, and Plowright does not overstate the musical case for them beyond their obvious delights of refinement and dexterity. But he balances them... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…