Chandos

This magnificent album sweeps through Gregson’s career of writing for symphonic brass, with a plethora of colours and stylistic influences. Glittering sound production to boot. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

His music occupies a strange sort of halfway territory between the late Baroque style and the progressive early Classical mould, and Julian Perkins captures the dichotomy of mid-18th-century... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015More…

Keenlyside manages to adapt his voice without any self-consciousness, and what comes across is a fabulous sense of lyrical line, a gorgeous creamy tone, acute characterization and superb diction,... — International Record Review, December 2014More…

These are splendid, sensitive, insightful interpretations by two great advocates of British music. I hope Vol. 3 is forthcoming! — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016More…

It’s all top-drawer stuff. Not least thanks to the beautifully blended sound of the whole: crisp strings, mellow woodwind, subtle-but-there harpsichord and theorbo and a gorgeous soft-focus... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018More…

All the pieces are performed with great conviction and receive vibrant recordings full of vim and vigour as befits their lively character. Chandos's sound is typically rich and clear. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011More…

The Schubert Ensemble have clearly lived with this music for a long time - and love it. Subtlety, restraint, perfect unanimity within the ebb and flow of the inbuilt rubato - they have it all,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

on this evidence, [Kienzl's] lieder - melodically attractive, resourcefully composed, and in an idiom that owes something to Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, but far less to his idol Wagner -... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011More…