Zelenka: Sonatas

�it's the group's nuance that's transfixing. When textures become sparse, delivery intensifies; when the line expands, the tempo stretches; when counterpoint thickens, articulation is leavened. The players are audibly intelligent, at once humorous and illuminating. Non-interventionist engineering shows that less can be more when the artists are first-rate.� --BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 *****

�There is highly capable playing, with expert tuning, smooth lines, and techniques apparently taxed only by the quickfire repeated notes in Sonata No. 6. The sound is also wonderfully clear and well balanced.� --Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012

�The lively Ensemble Marsyas are joined by violinist Monica Huggett in the third of the set, full of literally breathless counterpoint, while at the end is a beguiling single slow movement that leaves us up in the air, as if I had finished this review with a question mark.� --The Observer, 2nd September 2012

�Zelenka constantly beguiles...Ensemble Marsyas play everything with real flair.� --Sunday Times, 23rd September 2012