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Every now and then, a CD is released that knocks one’s reviewing socks off with its combined originality of repertoire and quality of musical performance...the music dances, muses and mourns... — Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 28th April 2010 More…

Tobias Hume was a professional soldier and a 'gentleman' (read amateur) composer, and virtuoso of the bass viol. His Musicall Humors (1605), a large collection of solo pieces, is the first publication... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

the encounter between different traditions bears curiously delicious fruit, and even if you remain to be persuaded by this trans-continental fantasy, Pierlot’s performances of Tobias Hume’s viol... — CD Review, 8th August 2015 More…

Time is always well spent in the musical company of Captain Tobias Hume...The performances are exemplary...There is a hint of the Celtic here and there, while A Souldiers Resolution is admirably... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

delightful and thoroughly enjoyable … unmitigated pleasure. — International Record Review, September 2014 More…

We are presented with a fictitious competition between viol and violin – frets versus fingers, so to speak. Rattinger on the viol begins with vigour…Tur Bonet on the violin then steps up to the... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

Marianne Muller brings to the fore Hume's modernity, particularly in the rhetorical Good Again, where he incorporates left-hand pizzicato and what sounds like chords played col legno. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…