BBC Music Magazine Awards, Baroque (era)

There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Ethereal yet visceral, Scholl's voice is the dream vehicle for Purcell...Stefano Montanari coaxes thrilling playing from Accademia Bizantina, who dance and swagger, throb and pulsate with true... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Duets for high tenor seem to have been something of a Blow speciality…and in Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker, director Jonathan Cohen has harnessed a quintessentially English sound whose lyricism... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Fray's debut is marked by an imaginative collation, Bach and Boulez, played with vibrant imagination. He pushes the boundaries but resists the merely quirky. Impeccable technique allows him... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 More…