Browse: Forqueray, A - La Leclair

Standage…imparts 'period' insights… He stresses the 'French' rather than the 'Corelli', and there's a generosity of spirit that characterises his whole approach… the powerfully cumulative Tempo... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Forqueray’s own music drives the gamba to explore new effects and sonorities…Boulanger responds to his musical chiaroscuro…The players are equally receptive to the expressive contrasts of Forqueray’s... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The title only hints at the disc's riches: it is a veritable 'art gallery' in sound. Marianne Muller and her continuo colleagues in the Ensemble Spirale explore the ways in which 17th- and 18th-century... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The 1769 Taskin harpischord, from Edinburgh University's Russell Collection, is a gem, resonant and entrancing. Unequal temperament pushes some intonation to its intriguing limit. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…