Chandos

The finale [of the Pounds] projects a mood of hard-won defiance, and the symphony as a whole is certainly worth experiencing – especially in a performance as scrupulously prepared and committed... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Once again, these three engaging performers have ranged across the beginning, middle and climax of Haydn’s career to compile a programme that can be enjoyed in its own right, performed with... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

The Trio Gaspard’s project to record the complete Haydn trios for Chandos gets off to a good start with five great works from the mid-1780s and mid-1790s...The Gaspard players like to keep the... — BBC Music Magazine More…

The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Beynon's highly expressive playing is showcased in this (mainly) British anthology — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The strongest music on the programme turns out to be the first, where Collins's huge reserves of gorgeous-toned musicianship are rewarded in...Malcolm Arnold's sharp-focus, irreverently brilliant... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…