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Klumpp has ascended the podium and continued Fey’s work very much in the style of his predecessor. Some constants remain: just as there was never anything fey about Fey’s approach to this music,... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

Mayer’s lively Sixth is full of both charm and wit – check out the mousey squeaks in the finale, for instance. The ‘Military’ Third, meanwhile, wears its nickname lightly, but is a similarly... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Baroque Soloists yield a cut-glass sound on modernised period instruments. As one might expect, these are honed, pristine accounts with scrupulous attention... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Thank heavens for the Heidelbergers’ Haydn project. Quite apart from their valuable reinterpretations of the later, more familiar works, the attention they can pay to these marginal pieces as... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 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…