Browse: Poulenc - Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184

[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021 More…

Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

There are no weak links in the band, and one can smell the vestiges of polish on the music's eccentrically undulating contours...Eshed's performance of the Flute Concerto is also very colourful... — International Record Review, October 2010 More…

The Clarinet Sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc are both late works, but they're very different in feeling: the Saint-Saëns generally relaxed and classical, the Poulenc more excitable, swinging... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc of Poulenc chamber works provides much enjoyment. — MusicWeb International, August 2019 More…