Handel - Keyboard Suite, HWV 427 in F major

Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this South Korean artist. He talks in the booklet of how he has immersed himself... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

as Lisa Smirnova's vivacious account of the Eight Great Suites reminds us, they're a treasure-trove of Handelian wit and humanity. Purists will certainly need to take them on Smirnova's terms,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This album, intelligently curated by Julian Perkins, is a happy celebration of that gift [Mark Ransom's bequest to the museum] and of the enlarged museum’s reopening in 2023. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

At last – a masterful account of Handel’s harpsichord suites on the instrument for which they were written. Pierre Hantaï allows the music to breathe, with unfussy, clean playing. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What is certain is that these pieces are inventive and full of vitality. In short, they are unashamedly intended to please the senses and, in the hands of stylistically informed players they... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[The 'Harmonious Blacksmith'] gives Koopman scope to demonstrate his virtuosity and his innate exuberance. For the most part, though, his playing seems to have acquired a degree of restraint... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…