Harmonia Mundi

I’d be tempted to make this my disc of the month… the programming is good... the instrumentation is appropriate and unfussy and all the performers really know what they’re doing both as individuals... — Early Music Review, October 2013More…

Elegant, judiciously scaled performances of music which smiles and bubbles with benevolence. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Taut ensemble in a resonant acoustic. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Planès brings the originality of these Haydn sonatas bounding to life. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Beguiling early Strauss and Reger at his most lyrically inspired, whose seductive opulence comes alive when listened to at a healthy volume setting. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

No note or tone is misplaced, with harmonics especially pure, and a judicious use of vibrato means that Elgar's loping first-movement Moderato begins very purely indeed. It's refreshing not... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

[Moinet] has compiled her visiting card with considerable ingenuity and a minimum of barrel-scraping...[She] is flawless throughout: her sound is a delight, her techique impeccable and her stamina... — International Record Review, May 2014More…

The quartet give a wonderfully relaxed and refined account of the Mozart and a strikingly mysterious one of the Britten...Between the two, Daniel inserts his own completion of a Mozart fragment...In... — The Observer, 28th June 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The orchestra is tart and the articulation brilliant in Rameau’s actes de ballets. A young Sandrine Piau appears as Cupid in Pygmalion. Agnes Mellon is the lovelorn Cephise and haughty Myrthis. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…