Resonus Classics
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Michael and Tong take on this key repertory in a spirit of fresh, fearless égalité, stylistic certainty and all-round technical brilliance… a thrillingly rewarding contribution to Beethoven’s... —
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Compared with Monteverdi’s lavish 1610 vespers, Freddi’s resources are modest…, yet the music is remarkably varied – here rapt and contemplative, there extravagantly virtuosic. The six soloists... —
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The crisp and rhythmic playing of Tom Winpenny, coupled with a colourful use of the unspoilt Victorian Binns organ (1892) at Queens' College, Cambridge, brings these performances of Stanford's... —
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Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano & Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102
Robin Michael (cello), Daniel Tong (piano)
This is one of those rewarding recordings that makes you totally reassess music from the mainstream repertoire. Robin Michael’s gut-strung cello is softly sonorous, a perfect match for Daniel... —
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The disc is full of sensitively balanced, expressive performance, most of them sung unaccompanied…A jazzed-up God rest you merry, gentlemen and a chittering Jingle Bells bring fun into the equation,... —
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it is Michael Berkeley who provides the real musical highlight of the disc with his dazzling virtuoso showpiece Wild Bells...one just wonders how many years it took Winpenny to develop the kind... —
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Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Choral works
Asgeir H. Steingrimsson (trumpet), Elisabet Waage (harp), Steef van Oosterhout (percussion), Bjorn Steinar Solbergsson (organ)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavik, Hordur Askelsson
The music has the calming, a cappella air of “spiritual polyphony” – sometimes dreamily tuneful, sometimes bleak and eerie...Many of these small-scale pieces were commissioned by the Schola... —
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One can simply relax and enjoy Farr's rock-steady rhythmic playing, crisp articulation and commanding overview. His approach is refreshingly unfussy and quirk-free, and he draws on an unfailingly... —
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