SACD, Purcell (composer)

Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

this is a thoughtful, evocative and confident debut. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021 More…

Prepare yourself to embrace the bizarre and bonkers virtuosity of Restoration mad songs and works by Biber and Telemann in these arrangements by Terje Tønnesen and Mihkel Kerem…these are stylish... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

The virtuoso violistes of Hespèrion XX underscore the stark melancholy of Purcell's fantasias in these intense, poetic readings from 1994. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 More…

This vivid act of reclamation has so much to teach, and to enjoy. It shows that Stokowski's arrangements were made not only with love but acuity; that their flair and poetry may survive beyond... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…