Browse: Vivaldi - Cello Sonata in G minor, RV42

Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous continuo... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

stylish performances. — Early Music Review, June 2015 More…

Cellist Claude Starck’s tone is deep and resonant, with each note carefully performed to bring out Vivaldi’s style. He proficiently leaps around the instrument when necessary, but in the slower... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

They are all in broadly the same format – four movements, alternating slow and fast tempi – but the breadth of melodic invention is seemingly inexhaustible, and Jaap ter Linden's expert interpretations... — David Smith, Presto Classical, 2nd May 2014 More…

A double bass adds depth to the continuo as well as avoiding any entanglement with Bruno Cocset's gutsy 'solo' cello, which bestrides declamatory verve and a singing Vivaldian line. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gabetta has a ravishing tone, especially in Vivaldi's soulful slow movements. The vigorous cello pyrotechnics of the finale of the G minor, RV 416 are negotiated with bravado to spare, and the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These stylish and tastefully ornamented performances are pleasant enough, but ultimately miss that last ounce of sparkle, imagination and colour projected by Pieter Wispelwey in his Vivaldi disc. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 3 out of 5 stars More…