LAWO

Politics aside, the repertoire is of ten tremendous fun, balancing lyricism and drama, humour, dance, the old (early Romantic) and the new, as well as the ‘serious’ and ‘folk ’. The sequencing... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Into the pot go Norwegian folk music, Wagnerian echoes, a squeeze of Massenet, a sliver of Sibelius – a conservative mixture on the whole, poured over librettos largely drawn from national legends... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mozart’s Haydn quartets from the 1780s, part of the composer’s golden period, possess invention, with and touches of tragedy which the Engegards mirror with intimate, soulful, subtle playing.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are bright, beautifully textured readings of these much-recorded masterpieces by this fine, youthful ensemble. — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2024 More…

[The F minor Fantasia, K608] is the highlight of this album: its swirling turns lead to a Baroque fugue which, after a quiet central interlude here on transparent flute, returns with a thrilling... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…