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It’s an intriguing selection, and here it’s been beautifully brought off…It perhaps sounds – unintentionally – like a back-handed compliment, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a bassoon chamber... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…

Baar’s debut album for Channel Classics oozes class. Coaxing a silvery, seductively pure sound from his 1729 Bergonzi violin, Baar places his distinctive interpretative stamp on a series of... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From the very first measures, it is obvious that this is a superb wind ensemble…Balances, usually a problem with bands and wind ensembles, are ideal: Everyone is heard but no one sticks out.... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

[Fedorova] specially captivating in the veiled quality to her tone with which she launches Clair de lune and the sensitive longing of Beau soir. Her rhythmic sense is best displayed in the Werkman... — The Strad More…

Nice performances, stunning recording. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this recital (part of Channel Classics’ First Chair series with the Amsterdam orchestra) exhibits playing of such exacting brilliance that old warhorses appear reignited, surrounding an attractive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

They set out their stall with Borodin’s Second, which is as euphonious and expressive as you could wish – devoid of mannerism but by no means lacking in communicative intensity… Close but not... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…