Browse: Avie (label)

The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Chandler’s tempos are invariably ‘just so’ – expertly executed, spaciously recorded, the disc consolidates and celebrates the ensemble’s Vivaldian roots as its 25th anniversary year beckons.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…a set to place Enescu among the great piano composers, superbly played and recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Like Pinnock's earlier set with the English Concert, the newcomer… displays Pinnock's seemingly unassailable ability to choose an effective, just tempo for each movement, and his infectious rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

an intensely dramatic account that will add spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship…[all] are realised in vivid colours through the agency... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

They get Price right, with playing full of flair. Montgomery’s Soul Force offers a powerful conclusion. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Wildly exuberant, [Masquerade] suited its celebratory purpose to a T – and its live recording does likewise in opening this album of showstopping orchestral works...the album title Mythologies... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…