'I’ve really enjoyed the sound of their gut strings with period bows and the sometimes almost viol-like melancholy it adds to the sound ...'
BBC Radio 3 'Record Review'
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'Măcelaru has an instinctive feel for the folkloric roots and inner diversity of Bartók's complex musical language ...'
Rondo
'Bach simply doesn’t get any better than this. Urgently, emphatically, even insistently recommended.'
Fanfare
The Strad Recommends: 'Phantasm’s haunting and luminous consort sound, beautifully captured on this recording, transports us back into chilly candlelit, wood-panelled chambers.'
The Strad
'Good sound, unusual combination of composers and an interesting pianist.'
BBC Radio 3 'Record Review'
'Orchestration really is at the heart of this project using the instrumental possibilities of Bach's world ... It works well.'
BBC Radio 3 'Record Review'
'Refined understatement is the order of the day in Cristian Macelaru’s slow-burning account of the ballet and svelte approach to the suite.'
The Irish Times
'Chauvin and his forces make the best possible case for this Mozart Requiem à la parisienne ... a performance of great elegance.'
Europadisc
'... the whole has a vibrancy that is compelling, plenty of thrills and passions, as well as numerous painterly subtleties, played and recorded superbly.'
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