Mirare

Spirited, elegant and lively performances, recorded in appropriately vivid sound, of music by the ever-intriguing figure of WF Bach, the eldest son of Bach...What Gratton and Il Convito convey... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Queffélec offers readings which seem rather consciously to pursue the middle way – avoiding extreme tempos, mitigating dynamic contrasts, seeking to mask seriousness with a certain spontaneity,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is fabulous music. The fourth concerto, heard first, sets the scene with its myriad technical challenges for the soloist; the finale is cripplingly hard up top, you can feel the stress... — Classical Music, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the individual performances here from Les Ombres are fantastic. Many special sound worlds are captured, and the gorgeously malleable flute of Sylvain Sartre contributes much to this. As does... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2022 More…

I love the way Hantaï plays the many grace-notes throughout these works, especially the Haydn sonatas—crisply, naturally, and with no fussiness. This is the least of his many outstanding qualities. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Trio Chausson's interpretation...abounds in harmonic pointing and expressive detail, the brighter lights of the exposition running into a sombre development with a dark-hued fugato...Never trivial,... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…