Avie

there’s much to admire in the tonal beauty and variety in the strings, despite the recording, with the players blending effortlessly, and keeping the emotional tension at a high level throughout... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Forsythe is a terrific soloist – pure-voiced but not bland, characterful but never mannered in her delivery. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012More…

Meneses delivers warm and technically flawless accounts of the Haydn C major and D major supported by an enthusiastic and full-blooded contribution from the Northern Sinfonia...Playing of such... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Woods directs a highly polished account [of Triptych] but the orchestral playing throughout is most assured. Avie's sound is excellent but it is the music that compels attention. Strongly recommended. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2010More…

Judith Leclair, principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic, valiantly manages in this anthology of chamber pieces to avoid the comical nasal quality that makes the bassoon a little showcased... — The Independent, 19th March 2010More…

For his Avie debut Stobbe bestrides its challenges with rich tone, sure technique and narrative acuity. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…