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Gaillard maintains her identity as a classical cellist but displays a happy adaptability to her 26 hand-picked collaborator, not with the reserve of an outsider but with the invention of a passionate... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

Intimately recorded, these are unmannered performances of laudable integrity. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…

Schwizgebel is in full command, avoiding the point-making that often intrudes in accounts of this music, but subtle enough not to make one weary…if you don’t know these two works, this disc... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Freiburg players clearly have fun with this music, and their performances, including one or two mini-cadenzas and some imaginative decoration, are enjoyable enough. But in the end there’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Scholl’s diction, both in English and German, is exemplary, and he sings with keen involvement. Karamazov plays with the greatest refinement, technical assurance, and marvelous sensitivity to... — Fanfare, July/August 2022 More…

Emmanuelle de Negri sounds distinctly older than Teodosia’s tender teenage years; but, given Scarlatti’s athletic vocal demands that’s no bad thing. It’s quite a sing and she takes on the feisty... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…