Concertos, Cello Concertos, Vivaldi (composer)

All four soloists dig into the virtuosic writing with glee – Peter Whelan’s pyrotechnics in the Bassoon Concerto are little short of astonishing, and Franco-Italian mezzo Lea Desandre rivals... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, October 2019 More…

The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Irish Baroque Orchestra play with devil-may-care aplomb. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2016 More…

Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The recording’s playful title, Doppio espressivo, brings to mind the dark intensity of a double espresso and, certainly, the group’s high-octane playing on dusky-hued double basses, cellos and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Carlo Graziani’s warmly expansive 1770s concerto, with its melting Larghetto grazioso, receives its premiere recording. In style somewhere between Boccherini and Haydn, without the memorable... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016 More…

This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire: fun…Croisé plays with the benevolence of an 18th-century... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

This is audibly a hugely enjoyable collaborative venture, the mellow warmth of the four saxophones and the contrasted tonal colouring of Jang Eun Bae’s piano providing a surprisingly convincing... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…