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The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021 More…

It's hard to imagine this varied programme better played than by Collins and Michael McHale. They're technically impeccable and stylistically flexible, and, aided by an unobtrusively excellent... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played - using a clarinet from 1830 and a Bechstein from 1870 - but most naturally recorded too. Every work here is a small-scale... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

The Clarinet Sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc are both late works, but they're very different in feeling: the Saint-Saëns generally relaxed and classical, the Poulenc more excitable, swinging... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...performances that encapsulate the Gallic charm and finesse of the music. At the same time, the Oboe Sonata's mix of the pastoral and the perky is nicely established, as is the blend of warmth... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 More…

This double disc of Saint-Saëns chamber music is a thorough guide to the composer’s writing for wind instruments. ‘The Swan’ from The Carnival of the Animals played on contrabassoon is stunning... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are strong, at times strikingly intense, occasionally large in gesture and scale. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2022 More…