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Technically faultless, with a gleaming, heroic tone, the Concertgebouw's principal horn player Jasper de Waal barely breaks a sweat in this decorous selection of aristocratic background music... — The Independent, 25th April 2010 More…

A 57-minute sequence of searching pieces for unaccompanied viola sounds like a disc of a certain austerity, and so it is, an exploration of music typically cast in “thick vital layers”, to use... — Sunday Times, 15th February 2015 More…

the Amsterdam Sinfonietta's phrasing is internally supple throughout an interpretation that yields little in intensity to older, weighty recordings...some phenomenally alert responses on the... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 More…

The album’s opener, Bach’s Sonata in G, BWV1027, is lovely. Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonio perform the Adagio with daydreaming slowness. There’s an introspection to how the phrases... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2021 More…

This is an impressive and enjoyable CD that easily bears repeated listening. There's a soothing quality to the Baroque flute, and its gentle, slightly reedy tone is captured very well here.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…