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Here is Byrd composing for Protestants: and what wondrous stuff it is – both a magnificent expression of the aesthetic liturgical leanings encouraged by Elizabeth I, and an anti-Calvinist celebration... — Choir & Organ, July 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Kenny lacks neither extensive playing experience in chamber, orchestral or operatic contexts nor a brilliant musical imagination. She brings both to bear on these performances of ‘old and new... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Listeners resigned to heavy, ponderous readings of the D major, E flat and B flat minor Fugues will be relieved at Butt's joyful speeds, as well as his fluid and flexible accounts of the ricecare-like... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

There’s an impressive level of excellence throughout, though Swensen is adaptable to moods between and within concertos…I love his natural way with slow movements, especially Mendelssohn’s and... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The success of this effort stems as much from the ever-changing colors and textures of Koffler’s transcription as from Pinnock’s inspired and tasteful direction. The instruments are all modern,... — Fanfare, July/August 2021 More…

So much first-rate 16th-century music still remains unrecorded, but here's a welcome addition.
Philippe Rogier's death at the age of 35 in 1596 cut short a prolific stream of music. Worse was... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

With each instrumental sound identical, it is all clear as day. Kuniko’s musicianship is colossal from bongo to piccolo…Hearing Kuniko’s voice in harmony with itself, and the forest of overtone... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…