Bassano, A

These players demonstrate perfectly how a balance of scholarship and expert period performance can restore familiar music to such radiant good health that we wonder how it ever survived before — BBC Music Magazine More…

Birds on Fire… is by Orlando Gough (b1953), a British composer… The music is hauntingly coloured by reference to klezmer tunes, while the second movement grows over a hypnotic ostinato. A memorable... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This musical kaleidoscope turns through dark hued reflections and light-filled reveries...Technically, the Rose Consort is well-nigh flawless, and these restrained, refined readings, informed... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing of the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble is dazzling. Set against a trio of mellow, sonorous sackbuts, the effect is sublime. Irregular phrase lengths and quirky chord changes abound.... — The Arts Desk, October 2018 More…

Locke's five-part suite for the reconstituted royal wind band...it is performed here with nuanced shading and flawless technique...The aromatic tint of Westminster Abbey's bells and library soundscapes...all... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…