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Few current violinists can claim as wide a repertoire and as active a policy of commissioning as Sheppard Skærved, and the present disc offers an excellent and often surprising overview of his... — International Record Review, April 2000 More…

As a Bach player Diana Boyle is at once fastidious and a free spirit. As in her recording of the six Partitas on Integra, she is passionately concerned here to bring out the full, independentmindedness... — Sunday Times More…

The interpretative standard of these performances is uniformly high, as is the quality and presence of the sound recording; but in "Stelae" the results are exceptional: the individual voices... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 More…

Scored for two sopranos, two mezzos, flute and piano, the limited timbral palette is used with intelligent frugality...The entire cast has a firm grounding in contemporary music and it shows.... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[The Fourth Trio] was written for the Fidelio Trio, whose expertise is second to none among present-day ensembles. The programme works well as a sequence too…[this is] a disc that does Clarke’s... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…