Brecon Baroque

Podger one of the finest of today's Baroque violinists takes up the challenge posed by Biber's 1681 sonata collection with élan. Her affinity with the material allows a free and spontaneous... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This crack squad of first-rate period-instrument musicians gives lithe, polished and devoted performances that make a convincing case for a one-to-a-part "orchestra". Indeed, so full-bodied... — Graham Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 30th November 2010More…

Part of the freshness stems from the interaction between Podger and her one-to-a-part ensemble. She’s first among equals and the dynamic couldn’t be further removed from the usual notion of... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

There's a sense of Podger and her players examining and analysing every note in their preparation, deciding on its role, and placing it carefully back into context, without ever disturbing the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

the music emerges with integrated, unaffected and airy naturalness...And in BWV1064R, the three-violin version here often outshines the surviving three-harpsichord version. Podger's Bach has... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This is not an interpretation that wants to grab you by the lapels…but rather one which by its natural ebb and flow aims to draw you stealthily into the music and have you breathe with it, so... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016More…