CD, Boismortier (composer)

For the most part, this is a rewarding enterprise, sympathetically recorded and with an essential chart indicating where on the album each instrument can be heard. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Characterful music demands characterful playing, of course, and that is what it gets from these talented and experienced chamber musicians, who throughout avoid any sense of the routine. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

While the pieces by the likes of Dupuits and Lemaire rarely have the ears pricking up with rapt attention, instruments such as the musette and hurdygurdy certainly create a distinctive soundworld. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Le printemps has Sarah Charles and flautist Marta Gawlas making affectionately conversational allusions to the sweet bird Philomel singing...L’hyver is performed gorgeously by Lili Aymonino... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2025 More…

Yamahiro Brinkmann demonstrates…that she’s more than capable of controlled, fluttering elegance when the notes are coming thick and fast — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Boismortier’s score is often delectable and both stylishly and entrancingly performed here by the rich and characterful Hungarian period-instrument orchestra and the healthy-sounding choir,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…