Arcana

This recording indicates he is the master of this Walter replica, fully exploiting its potential. Cascioli’s phrases are inevitably shapely. He never rushes embellishments, always giving them... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024More…

there’s a real sense of a relaxed, even jazzy leaning into not just the music’s but the plucked string’s poignantly evanescent quality. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024More…

The performances of these works by the Concerto Scirocco are excellent. In the vocal numbers, the diction is clear and the ensemble fitting, with the various solo moments appearing with stately... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024More…

It’s always a good sign when a recording’s first notes leap so vibrantly out of the stereo that all the day’s previous reviewing plans sail out of the window in favour of lapping up the disc... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023More…

The immediate impression from the start of the first Sonata is not so much of ‘bottom up’ cello-like depth, but of a mellowness of sound enhanced by a sympathetically resonant acoustic that... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…