Hyperion

Stylistically, the songs are a curious fusion of polite salon music of a somewhat saccharine sentimentality - epitome of the fashionable and graceful Galant style - and the sensual melodies... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

There is more than enough here to excite anyone with a taste for spectacular organ pyrotechnics. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015More…

Buratto captures the evolving moods with panache and just enough pomp. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The Finn Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s choral palette ranges from ethereal to hardhitting, deliciously eerie to radiantly joyful. It is all immaculately and excitingly presented here. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This well-filled two-CD set is surely the most wide-ranging single issue of Gounod's mélodies.
The first of the discs confirms the commonly held view of Gounod. Almost without exception the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Even the most out-and-out purists who blench at the thought of Bach on the piano will find it hard not to be won over by Angela Hewitt's artistry. Eschewing all hieratic pretentiousness on the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Throughout the programme, the four voices of the Orlando Consort are beautifully balanced, their intonation and diction nigh flawless. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Both the Second and Third Concertos bristle with enough savage jumps and hurdles to throw a less than first class performer; woe betide the pianist without flawless scales and arpeggios (often... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…