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Hannigan and her players breathe with the music, not overworking the texture but keeping it light and airy...Alexandra Heath is balanced as a colleague rather than soloist, but her cutglass... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2024More…

Kato perform[s] a series of complex marimba works by the Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi – abstract, Bartókian little puzzles that lurch between delicacy and violence. The centrepiece is his... — The Guardian, 3rd October 2020More…

Barsanti’s Op. 3 concerti grossi (published in 1742) are exuberant and felicitous works, faintly Handelian in style (the two men knew each other) but infused to an even greater degree with an... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Whelan’s alert direction ensures an effortless fluency that strikes a fruitful rapport between the well-matched vocal quartet and instrumental playing instinct with freshness and vitality. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

this rendition is played on period instruments, which have often come to mean strong attack, primary colours and sharply articulated phrasing. Not here. The Avison Ensemble takes a gentler approach...Beznosiuk... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

I can’t completely shake off my own intermittent frustrations. But those willing to take Boesch on his own, idiosyncratic terms – song as heightened speech – should find much to enjoy and ponder. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023More…

The most impressive performance comes from Aaron Sheehan (as Ulisse's son Telemaco) whose light lyrical voice delivers the music with utter naturalness. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 3 out of 5 starsMore…