Reviews archive
'Biber: the Joyful Mysteries' reviewed in The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
December 2019 – Reviews
Our concert of Biber’s Joyful Mysteries was reviewed in The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
'A Musical Offering' reviewed on Latest Brighton
November 2019 – Reviews
Andrew Connal wrote about our concert in the Brighton Early Music Festival at St Paul’s Church, Brighton, 3 November 2019, on Latest Brighton. He gave it 5 stars.
‘Nicolas Clérambault: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed on Pizzicato
November 2019 – Reviews
Remy Franck reviewed our CD ‘Nicolas Clérambault: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ for Pizzicato
‘Nicolas Clérambault: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed in Early Music Review
November 2019 – Reviews
David Hansell reviewed our CD ‘Nicolas Clérambault: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ in Early Music Review
‘Musical offering’ reviewed in Early Music
June 2019 – Reviews
Daniel Bangert reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ for Early Music
‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed in Toccata
April 2019 – Reviews
Johan van Veen reviewed our CD ‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ for Toccata
‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed in The Strad
April 2019 – Reviews
Robin Stowell reviewed our CD ‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ in The Strad
‘Bach and before’ reviewed in Early Music
March 2019 – Reviews
Kevin Sutton reviewed our CD ‘Bach and before’ for Early Music
‘Bach and his rivals’ reviewed in Early Music
March 2019 – Reviews
Kevin Sutton reviewed our CD ‘Bach and his rivals’ for Early Music
‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed in Gramophone
February 2019 – Reviews
Lindsay Kemp reviewed our CD ‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ in Gramophone
‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed on MusicWeb International
February 2019 – Reviews
Johan van Veen reviewed our CD ‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ for MusicWeb International
‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ reviewed in Early Music Review
December 2018 – Reviews
Noel O’Regan reviewed our CD ‘Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: chamber music from the Brossard Collection’ in Early Music Review, giving it 5 out of 5 stars
‘Bach and before’ reviewed in Bach Magazin
May 2018 – Reviews
Matthias Hengelbrock reviewed our CD ‘Bach Magazin’ for Bach Magazin, the publication of the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig
‘Bach and before’ reviewed in Scherzo
April 2018 – Reviews
Mariano Acero Ruilópez reviewed our CD ‘Bach and before’ for Scherzo
‘Bach and before’ reviewed in Gramophone
February 2018 – Reviews
Lindsay Kemp reviewed our CD ‘Bach and before’ in Gramophone
‘Biber: the Joyful Mysteries’ reviewed in The Tablet
December 2017 – Reviews
Rick Jones wrote about our concert at St Dominic’s Priory, 2 December 2017, for The Tablet
‘Musical offering’ reviewed in Amadeus
December 2017 – Reviews
Massimo Rolando Zegna reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ for Amadeus
‘Sound the trumpet!’ reviewed in Early Music Today
November 2017 – Reviews
Rick Jones wrote about our concert at St John’s Downshire Hill, 7 October 2017, for Early Music Today
‘Musical offering’ reviewed in Bach Magazin
November 2017 – Reviews
Matthias Hengelbrock reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ for Bach Magazin, the publication of the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig
‘The Food of Love’ reviewed on the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies website
November 2017 – Reviews
Michael Graham wrote about our concert at the Georgian Concert Society, 14 October 2017, for the website of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, here
‘Musical offering’ reviewed in Early Music Review
July 2017 – Reviews
David Stancliffe reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ in Early Music Review, giving it 5 stars overall (out of 5 stars). He writes as follows:
‘Musical offering’ reviewed on Musicalifeiten
June 2017 – Reviews
Jan de Kruiff has reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ on his website, Musicalifeiten.
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‘Musical offering’ reviewed on Record Review
June 2017 – Reviews
Andrew McGregor reviewed our CD ‘Musical offering’ for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review:
‘Sleepers awake!’ reviewed in Klassieke Zaken
February 2017 – Reviews
Marcel Bijlo reviewed our CD ‘Sleepers awake!’ in Klassieke Zaken. He writes as follows (in our translation from his Dutch text):
‘Sleepers awake!’ reviewed in Early Music Review
January 2017 – Reviews
David Stancliffe reviewed our CD ‘Sleepers awake!’ in Early Music Review, giving it 4.5 stars overall (out of 5 stars). He writes as follows:
‘Sleepers awake!’ reviewed on Record Review
January 2017 – Reviews
Andrew McGregor reviewed our CD ‘Sleeper’s awake!’ for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review:
‘Sleepers awake!’ reviewed in Gramophone
January 2017 – Reviews
Lindsay Kemp reviewed our CD ‘Sleepers awake!’ in Gramophone.
‘Coffee and Cabbage’ reviewed in Early Music Today
November 2016 – Reviews
Rick Jones wrote about our concert at St John’s Downshire Hill, 8 October 2016, for Early Music Today
Bach Players: Octagon Chapel, Norwich
October 2016 – Reviews
Frank Cliff wrote about our Octagon Chapel concert, 6 October 2016, for the Eastern Daily Press
‘Venice to Hamburg’ reviewed on MusicWeb International
August 2016 – Reviews
Johan van Veen reviewed our CD ‘Venice to Hamburg’ for the MusicWeb International website
‘Venice to Hamburg’ reviewed on Concertzender
June 2016 – Reviews
Kees Koudstaal is a CD-shop owner, concert promoter, and now has a radio programme on the Concertzender radio channel. On 5 June he played a track from our ‘Venice to London’ CD. He also tells the story of how he got to know about The Bach Players. Listen here (from 44:38).
‘Venice to Hamburg’ reviewed on Music Frames
June 2016 – Reviews
Mattie Poels reviewed our CD ‘Venice to Hamburg’ on his blog Music Frames
‘Venice to Hamburg’ reviewed in Early Music Today
June 2016 – Reviews
Nicholas Anderson reviewed (with five stars) our CD ‘Venice to Hamburg’ for Early Music Today.
The Bach Players at The Octagon Chapel
April 2016 – Reviews
Christopher Smith wrote about our Octagon Chapel concert, 3 March 2016, for the Eastern Daily Press.
‘Venice to Hamburg’ reviewed in Early Music Review
April 2016 – Reviews
The first review of ‘Venice to Hamburg’ has just been published, in Early Music Review. D. James Ross gave five stars to every aspect of the CD. He writes as follows:
‘Bach and his rivals’ reviewed in Early Music Today
November 2015 – Reviews
Adrian Horsewood reviewed our CD ‘Bach and his rivals’ for Early Music Today. He gave it five stars out of five.
‘Bach and his rivals’ reviewed in the Netherlands
September 2015 – Reviews
Thanks to the work of our distributor New Arts International, we have been receiving more reviews of our CDs in the Netherlands.
French chamber music
September 2015 – Reviews
In a review round-up in the journal ‘Early Music’, with the title ‘French chamber music’, Graham Sadler wrote about two of our CDs of French music.
Review of our first four CDs
September 2015 – Reviews
We have just caught up with this review of our first four CDs on the Dutch Opus Klassiek website, by Siebe Riedstra. He really gets what we have been aiming for with our recordings. We give an English translation below.
The Bach Players at Hatchlands
June 2015 – Reviews
David Hansell wrote about our Hatchlands concert, 7 May 2015, for Early Music Review.
London's Baroque Festival highlights the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
May 2015 – Reviews
Nahoko Gotoh has reviewed our Jacquet de La Guerre concert.
The Bach Players reviewed in Concerto
February 2015 – Reviews
Thumbing through old reviews, we found this short retrospective piece from 2013 in ‘Concerto’, the authoritative Early Music magazine published from Cologne. The review by Bernd Heyder, one of ’Concerto’’s co-editors, was prompted by our Pachelbel and Bach CD, and looks back to the two earlier CDs that we based on Bach’s cantatas: Every one a chaconne and Nun komm!. Our newest CD, Bach and his rivals, now joins this sequence.
‘An Italian in Paris’ reviewed in Early Music Today
November 2014 – Reviews
Nicholas Anderson reviewed our CD ‘An Italian in Paris’ for Early Music Today. He gave it five stars out of five, and the disc is also named as the editor’s choice for this issue.
‘Bach’s library’ reviewed in Early Music Today
November 2014 – Reviews
Nicholas Anderson reviewed our CD ’Bach’s library’ for Early Music Today. He gave it five stars out of five.
‘An Italian in Paris’ reviewed in International Record Review
October 2014 – Reviews
Christopher Price reviewed our CD ‘An Italian in Paris’ for International Record Review.
‘An Italian in Paris’ reviewed in Early Music Review
May 2014 – Reviews
Noel O’Regan reviewed our CD ‘An Italian in Paris’ for Early Music Review.
Bach’s library / BBC Radio 3: CD Review
April 2014 – Reviews
Our CD ’Bach’s library’ was reviewed on BBC Radio 3’s CD Review last Saturday morning.
‘Bach’s library’ reviewed in Gramophone
May 2013 – Reviews
Lindsay Kemp reviewed our CD ‘Bach’s library’ for Gramophone.
‘Bach’s library’ reviewed on CD Review
April 2013 – Reviews
Andrew McGregor reviewed our CD ‘Bach’s library’ for BBC Radio 3’s CD Review.
‘Bach’s library’ reviewed in Early Music Review
April 2013 – Reviews
David Hansell reviewed our CD ‘Bach’s library’ for Early Music Review.
‘Pachelbel and Bach’ reviewed in Luister
August 2012 – Reviews
Gerard Scheltens has reviewed our CD ‘Pachelbel and Bach’ for Luister magazine. His review came with a maximum of ten stars: five for the quality of performance and five for the quality of recording .
‘Pachelbel and Bach’ reviewed in Early Music Today
June 2012 – Reviews
Adrian Horsewood has reviewed our CD ‘Pachelbel and Bach’ for Early Music Today.
‘Pachelbel and Bach’ reviewed in IRR
June 2012 – Reviews
Nicholas Anderson has reviewed our CD ‘Pachelbel and Bach’ for International Record Review.
The Bach Players give moving tribute to Gustav Leonhardt
April 2012 – Reviews
Nahoko Gotoh has reviewed our Leonhardt memorial concert.
‘Italy versus France’ reviewed on Muse Baroque
June 2011 – Reviews
Sébastien Holzbauer has reviewed our CD ‘Italy versus France’ for the Muse Baroque website.
‘Italy versus France’ reviewed in IRR
May 2011 – Reviews
Simon Heighes has reviewed our CD ‘Italy versus France’ for International Record Review.
‘Nun komm!’ reviewed in Early Music
April 2011 – Reviews
David Black reviewed our CD ‘Nun komm!’ for Early Music.
‘Nun komm!’ reviewed in Gramophone
December 2010 – Reviews
Richard Lawrence has reviewed our CD ‘Nun komm!’ for Gramophone.
Pachelbel and Bach in Norwich and London
December 2010 – Reviews
These reviews by Clifford Bartlett and Hugh Keyte, of our ‘Pachelbel and Bach’ (part 1) concerts in Norwich and London, are among the most perceptive as well as appreciative that we have had. They show the gains that can come when performances of the same music in two venues are compared, and when two different critics bring their different sensibilities and experiences to bear on the matter.
‘Nun komm!’ reviewed in IRR
November 2010 – Reviews
Marc Rochester reviewed our CD ‘Nun komm!’ for International Record Review.
‘Every one a chaconne’ reviewed in Classic FM magagazine
January 2010 – Reviews
A.S. has reviewed our CD ‘Every one a chaconne’ for Classic FM magazine.
‘Nun komm!’ in Norwich reviewed on Bright Cecilia
November 2009 – Reviews
The Bright Cecilia forum has published a vivid review of our Norwich concert.
‘Rendezvous in Vienna’ in Norwich
September 2009 – Reviews
This review of our Norwich concert, September 2009, was published in the Eastern Daily Press.
‘Bach arranging and arranged’ reviewed in Classic FM magazine
February 2009 – Reviews
R.J. has reviewed our CD ‘Bach arranging and arranged’ for Classic FM magazine.
‘Bach arranging and arranged’ reviewed in IRR
February 2009 – Reviews
Nicholas Anderson reviewed our CD ‘Bach arranging and arranged’ for International Record Review.
London concerts
February 2008 – Reviews
Andrew Benson-Wilson wrote about our London concert, November 2007, for Early Music Review.
Bach to basics on fine night of music
December 2005 – Reviews
Martin Dreyer’s review of our York concert, December 2005, was published in the Birmingham Post.
Warwick Early Music Showcase
December 2004 – Reviews
Andrew Benson-Wilson wrote about our Warwick concert, September 2004, for Early Music Review.
Bach and friends
May 2004 – Reviews
Andrew Benson-Wilson wrote about our London concert, March 2004, for Early Music Review.
Riches galore from J.S. Bach
April 2004 – Reviews
Christopher Morley’s review of our Birmingham concert, March 2004, was published in the Birmingham Post.
Bach as a twenty-something
March 2004 – Reviews
Roderic Dunnett’s review of our Birmingham concert, March 2004, was published in the Church Times.
Early music review
December 1999 – Reviews
This review of our London concert, November 1999, was published in Early Music Review
Bachs Passion als ‘work in progress’
July 1999 – Reviews
This review of our St John Passion in Berlin was published in the Berliner Morgenpost, 6 July 1999.
Die Kirche im Dorf
July 1999 – Reviews
This review of our St John Passion in Berlin was published in the Die Welt, 5 July 1999.
London music
July 1998 – Reviews
Andrew Benson-Wilson wrote about our London concert, May 1998, for Early Music Review.