Reviews

Excepcional: Les cyclopes is forceful, Les tendres plaintes wonderfully languid and the Sarabande en la extremely melancholic.'

'The piece pulses with heart-thumping brilliance, and Sidorova plays it with the affection and expertise that you would expect from its place in her story. It's an exciting and brilliant way to end an exciting and brilliant disc, one that has fired my interest in Piazzolla and left me hungry for more.'

'The centerpiece of this disc - Biber’s F minor Requiem - is a work of plangent beauty and kaleidoscopic colors, timbres and textures.'

'The warm, direct performance here by the Vox Luminis vocal ensemble and the small Freiburger BarockConsort is optimal … A typically strong outing from this unique pairing makes even a quite obscure repertory accessible to general audiences.'

Editor's Choice: 'It is a rare and wonderful thing when a sequel surpasses its first instalment ... In this, its stunning sequel, Phantasm achieve the above and more ... A wholly wondrous album.'

Excepioncal: 'Undoubtedly, another new gem from Ricercar's catalogue to add to our treasure chest.'

'But if her command of German contributes to the charm of this album, if the accompaniment by Malcolm Martineau is finely tailor-made, it is indeed with the depth of her tone, the intelligence of the phrasing and the richness of her harmonics that many possibilities will present themselves to the young Scotswoman.’

'To judge by what I hear here, they are among the best Haydn quartets now playing anywhere.'

'... it is undeniably intriguing ... viol consort music carries overtones of inwardness and contemplation.'