Channel Classics

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…

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 2021More…

the rising young Dutch violinist/ director Rosanne Philppens draws an exquisitely chill sweetness of expression from her 1727 ‘Barrere’ Strad [in the Stravinsky]. The Haydn performances are... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Fred Jacobs is both expert as accompanist and as soloist in his various solos, notably a fine chaconne by Robert de Visée. Johannette Zomer is adept in dealing with the vocal ornament needed... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Here is a pianist who explores the inner recesses of Schumann's glowing romanticism with a delicate emotional fervour very much his own. Finely recorded, this most elegant and stylish pianist... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009More…

…it is van Rijen's sense of line that is the most impressive feature of his playing, reliant on musicianship rather than physical dexterity. …his virtuoso technique need fear no comparison... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009More…