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Helen Davies contributes some limpid passagework...while Michala Petri is at her most fluidly imaginative...This is not music that confronts the big issues of life head on but its leisurely unfolding... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

Recorded with startling clarity and informatively annotated, this release is another triumph for Gert Mortensen and the formidable roster of musicians with whom he has collaborated on this project... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

Throughout the programme, well recorded in a Copenhagen church, Petri plays with immaculate tuning and finger technique, crisp tonguing and well-shaed melodic lines; Esfahani matches her with... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Michala Petri has done great things for the recorder, helping to bring it back centre-stage after its 19th-century eclipse by the flute and clarinet, and here she takes the process on further. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

her poise remains absolute thanks to lightning fingerwork, precision tonguing, faultless breath control and unfailing evenness of tone and tuning...there are times when the final sparks of human... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

Standout pieces include Sunleif Rasmussen's Winter Echoes, which unleashes ferocious trills and flutters from the recorder in a pleasing subversion of the instrument's dulcet reputation, and... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…