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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 4
Susanna Ogata (violin) & Ian Watson (fortepiano)
Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata offer stylish and invigorating performances, Watson negotiates the cascades of notes in the virtuoso opening movement of the E flat major sonata with admirable fluency,... —
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Perfectly capturing the astringency of Beethoven’s first-period quartets. —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 3
Susanna Ogata (violin) & Ian Watson (fortepiano)
...what makes this new series interesting is the combined sound of the fortepiano and a violin of the same period, different from any other recording or performance I’ve heard. The sound is... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 2
Susanna Ogata (violin) & Ian Watson (fortepiano)
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Special offer. Durante: Requiem
Alexandra Kidgell (soprano), Katy Hill (soprano), William Purefoy (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Ben Davies (bass), Clive Driskill-Smith (organ)
Oxford Baroque, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Stephen Darlington
Durante’s 1746 post-Baroque Requiem is no great masterpiece, but it does have moments of elegance and charm which are beautifully rendered. The likeable Organ Concerto benefits from sparkling... —
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There is no denying the Eyblers’ verve and delicacy of touch, and the lighter No 2 is a treat. —
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There is fine solo work from tenor Mark Dobell in ‘Invictus’, setting a poem by William Ernest Henley…From placid beginnings Goodall builds Henley’s paean to Victorian stoicism toward a peroration... —
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The sepulchral opening phrases…the harsh, piercing violin sonorities…their beautifully gauged silences throughout the cycle. The Callinos have an eloquent way of ending phrases, too: listen... —
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Special offer. JS Bach: Organ Works Volume IV
Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Quinney nails BWV 548’s spaciousness and architectural inventiveness, but sometimes favours a certain didacticism over emotional intensity…Best of all though is an imaginatively registered,... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 1
Susanna Ogata (violin) & Ian Watson (fortepiano)
These are altogether compelling performances, with well-judged tempos…and the music always vividly characterised. —
