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Bruckner’s intricate counterpoint and rich orchestrations make for seductive, powerful listening, especially in the Te Deum which bursts with harmonic colour. Herreweghe and his musicians give... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In items such as Già pense the performers demonstrate an understanding that not all of these madrigals are morbid (fewer than half mention death), and they deck out the sound with warm chords... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

With ‘Si ch’io vorrei morire’ – ‘Yes, I would die’ – they find a way to suggest the mounting excitement, and climbing melodic line, of a song which is all about physical coupling. And with ‘Ohime,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are generally no-nonsense accounts, with brisk tempos of a kind favoured these days in period-instrument performances...these are impressive, if somewhat unyielding performances, and they... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are not performances that fall over themselves with an excess of enthusiasm and energ y, but rather convey a mature and graceful stateliness – yet there’s no shortage of joy. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 3 out of 5 stars More…

an unmitigated delight…the winner among these works is Symphony No. 3…enchanting in every way, with Schubert's devotion to Beethoven's Second Symphony, in the same key, evident but unstressed — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Schubert's Octet is such an infectiously joyous piece that it's impossible not to feel uplifted by it - especially when it's played as well as it is here. This is a performance that conveys... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…