Browse: Sinfonietta Riga (chamber ensemble)

Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic yearning... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the soundworld here is a rich, late Romantic expressionism – beautifully rendered by the warm, full sound of the Sinfonietta Riga and some committed solo performances. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here [Gould] is found live in Riga, playing the Beethoven concerto with a pure, shining, even spiritual lyricism, accompanied by the lean forces of the Sinfonietta Riga...The Lark Ascending makes... — Financial Times, 2nd May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s an unusual and highly effective beginning, and I can say that it is unlike any other setting of the Passion with which I am familiar...One could hardly ask for better performers in this... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Rebeka makes something worthwhile out of pretty well all of them, her voice forwardly if occasionally fiercely recorded...She offers a rich, spacious sound in Mozart’s ‘Laudate Dominum’ and carefully... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…