Reviews

'Conductor Lucie Leguay favours a sharp, incisive approach, and gets a colourful response from the Lille players ... Etched with subtle detail, it’s a fine performance musically.'

'Here’s another fine recording. Filippo Gorini’s has lovely poise throughout, sometimes as though with bated breath, other times with driving propulsion, and occasionally exploding with pure joie de vivre.'

Recording of the Month: 'A sparkling tenth instalment ... Articulately voiced by Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.'

'Pleasure of another sort bubbles out of the latest release to advance the cause of the roving Bohemian Jan Ladislav Dussek ... Both artists obviously had tremendous fun making this recording.'

Interpretation 10: 'This one is just as exceptional ... But what a shimmer, what suppleness, what delicacy! This subtle weaving opens up a revealing perspective.'

'Cargill and Lepper create moods which are intimate and thoughtful, often quite cool, but with an evocative flexibility in the text.'

'Duo Pleyel use all the timbres, dynamics and attack of their period keyboard to tremendous effect. You’ll emerge wondering why this Bohemian composer isn’t more widely celebrated and much more frequently.'

'... close listening reveals that the players approach each item individually and offer subtle, intelligent readings of each one. More important, these are consistently fine performances in conception and execution.'

'Cargill has just the right voice to bring out the Wagnerian breadth of the song but also the craft and sensitivity and range of colours to caress Debussy’s Songs of Bilitis, Duparc’s Chanson triste and Belgian composer Joseph Jongen’s nocturnal dreams of love. It’s an attractive programme.'