Harmonia Mundi

This recording of Schubert's first great song cycle is full of good things...Paul Lewis...plays the hyperactive accompaniment...with force, clarity, precision and a reasonable amount of variation... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

…the first recording on period instruments of Symphony No 80. The Freiburgers are alive to this curious work's contradictions: the vehemence of the Sturm und Drang opening, giving way to the... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009More…

There is poetry aplenty, but he is not afraid of the music's dark heart. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This is the ensemble's most outstanding legacy in this repertoire...Cantus Cölln bring customary warmth, blend and refinement to this magnificent work and an instinct for pacing, hard-won through... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010More…

...few manage to shape the overall structure and each movement therein quite as convincingly as Kern. This is particularly true of the first movements of both sonatas...The last movement of... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010More…

The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009More…

Christoph Berner and Camillo Radicke animate proceedings with rhythmic guile and point, a refined sense of texture, and, in the more obviously "Spanish" numbers, a palpable sense of enjoyment...the... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2010More…

We owe Egarr our thanks for this sampler – a selection of gently expressive choral anthems, organ works and instrumental fantasias that establish him as a far-from-negligible precursor of Blow... — Financial Times, 27th July 2012, 3 out of 5 starsMore…