★★★★★
This release was recently reviewed by ClassicalNet contributor Robert Cummings (Sony 49176), who praised this release enthusiastically. He's right to be effusive, for these are really very fine performances. Bell is still a reasonably young and justly famous violin virtuoso, but little attention has been paid to his music directorship, which he's held since 2011...
- www.classical.net
2013-06-11
★★★★★
From September, 2011 Joshua Bell has served as music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He is the first musician to hold that title since the orchestra's founding in 1958 by Sir Neville Marriner, who is now life president of this London-based chamber ensemble. Bell, as his admirers are well aware, first established himself as a world-class violinist. He still performs in that role and when he leads the Academy he typically does so from the concertmaster's chair...
- www.classical.net
2013-04-01
★★★★★
This intriguing Forte reissue is simply a straight coupling of two former full price discs that received good press when they were first issued. Marriner excels in this sort of repertoire that allows ample space for colour and intrinsic beauty especially in the loving and melodious Wolf-Ferrari items. The Cherubini overtures are also vitally infectious with 'Médea' and 'Faniska' amongst the most impressively constructed...
- www.classical.net
2010-09-23
★★★★★
While their playing is just a little bit on the scrappy side, it is still hard not to enjoy this recording by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble. Part of the reason is the players' innate beauty of tone. Part of the reason is the players' affection for the music. Part of the reason is the players' sheer joy in making music. And part of the reason is that the music is just so darned enjoyable...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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