Linus Roth

Tempos tend to be on the slower side, but the works don’t suffer for it – Roth leans into Bach’s gorgeous spread chords and juicy harmonies with atypical, yet inspired, rubato choices and tonal... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Roth finds a silvery sweetness for the more lyrical sections of the Stravinsky, an earthy fullness for the Brahms and skitters through the harmonics and left-hand pizzicato passages of the Wieniawski... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Whereas the majority of players tend to focus on the pseudocontrapuntal nature of Bach’s solo violin music…Roth positively relishes the harmonic implications of Bach’s structural plan…The other... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

His approach results in an attractive ‘inward’ quality, superbly captured by the recorded sound, bringing a poised and meditative dimension to the fugues, in particular that of the A minor Sonata. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Linus Roth offers controlled and superbly prepared accounts — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…