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What a subtle and fascinating artist is oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk – a team player as well as a born soloist, whose ideas on the Strauss Wind Serenade and Second Sonatina are as distinctive in... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The appropriately named Armonia Ensemble are members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra who all understand how to blend perfectly as well as take solos, and they are surely perfectly balanced... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Oboist-director Nicholas Daniel negotiates tempos and dynamics so carefully, bittersweetness has its head here. I love the timely consolations of the clarinet family at the one at the end of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the standard is, as we have come to expect, extraordinarily high — Evening Standard, January 2004 More…