Alec Frank-Gemmill

To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A delightful and thoughtful debut disc from the Orsino Ensemble...Supplemented by Pavel Kolesnikov’s insightful pianism, the Orsinos draw on its core quintet of leading wind players. The entire... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Fascinating to hear new colours in a familiar work, with Brahms’s First Cello Sonata transcribed for French horn. It makes a fine prelude to a terrific performance of the Horn Trio. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performers are some of the cream of the younger generation, and as such it is difficult to imagine finer performances than these...This is a terrific, well-filled disc, and one that should... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music…Plane’s musicianship is abetted throughout by that of his colleagues…Collecting... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

One wouldn’t normally expect late-18th-century aristocratic entertainment music to survive the test of time, but this really does speak across the ages…The horn writing is especially ear-catching:... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…