Browse: connections (series)

Perfectly capturing the astringency of Beethoven’s first-period quartets. — The Strad, September 2019 More…

There is no denying the Eyblers’ verve and delicacy of touch, and the lighter No 2 is a treat. — Sunday Times, 4th March 2018 More…

Quinney nails BWV 548’s spaciousness and architectural inventiveness, but sometimes favours a certain didacticism over emotional intensity…Best of all though is an imaginatively registered, compellingly... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is fine solo work from tenor Mark Dobell in ‘Invictus’, setting a poem by William Ernest Henley…From placid beginnings Goodall builds Henley’s paean to Victorian stoicism toward a peroration... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance)/4 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…

These are altogether compelling performances, with well-judged tempos…and the music always vividly characterised. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Durante’s 1746 post-Baroque Requiem is no great masterpiece, but it does have moments of elegance and charm which are beautifully rendered. The likeable Organ Concerto benefits from sparkling... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata offer stylish and invigorating performances, Watson negotiates the cascades of notes in the virtuoso opening movement of the E flat major sonata with admirable fluency,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The sepulchral opening phrases…the harsh, piercing violin sonorities…their beautifully gauged silences throughout the cycle. The Callinos have an eloquent way of ending phrases, too: listen to... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…