Daquin: Le Coucou (The Cuckoo)

“Robert Aldwinckle is an accomplished player, well known beyond early-music circles. He offers here a potpourri of familiar harpsichord pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries, intended as an introduction, which he performs on two replica instruments built by John Horniblow. The choice of repertoire ….is confidently performed.……many will be delighted to find so many of the harpsichord 'classics' gathered together on a single budget-price CD.” (Gramophone)

“Vol 10 of Naxos's "Great Pianists" consists of 21 bonnes bouches with which the incomparable Moiseiwitsch enchanted his adoring audiences down the years. And, as a crowning touch, there is Mendelssohn's First Concerto full of old­fashioned touches in the central Andante but with a finale tossed aside with all of his legendary legerdemain and leaving most of his rivals at the starting-post. Elsewhere you can hear a jackdaw's nest of performances where the merest trinket is turned into purest gold.” Gramophone