Download Roundup - February 2010
‘I happily concur with Johann van Veen’s wholehearted recommendation of this disc … Once again we should be very grateful to Toccata for taking us down a fascinating musical byway.’
Brian Wilson
MusicWeb - February 2010
‘...Fine performances from all concerned show that these works, with their dual preoccupations of chromatic diversity and contrapuntal ingenuity, actually work very well as musical entertainment too.’
Brian Clark
Early Music - February 2008
‘...Baroque enthusiasts should be delighted to discover the music of Georg von Bertouch […] Bergen Barokk presents clear and lively performances of seven of the 24 Sonatas […] imaginative and fresh with inventiveness’
Patric Standford
Music & Vision Daily - 19 January 2008
‘Bergen Barokk… emphasize energy and clarity, and are not above taking a personal stand in matters of tempo […] In short, this is a lively, attractive program, engagingly performed and well recorded. Let’s hope we hear more from Bergen Barokk – and from Bertouch – soon.’
Barry Brenesal
Fanfare - May/June 2007
‘...This disc brings forward music which has been neglected for a long time. [...]I have enjoyed this recording a lot, not only because of the music, which is anything but dull, but also because of the performance. Bergen Barokk plays this repertoire with great imagination... excellent ensemble playing... brilliantly realised... [...] I wholeheartedly recommend this disc, as it is musically highly entertaining and historically very interesting.’
Johan van Veen
MusicWeb International - June 2006
‘Det er på en måte julaften når vi nå får en håndfull av triosonatene i en konsentrert, lys og engasjerende tolkning av gammelmusikkensemblet Bergen Barokk. Dette kan de, dette gir de liv.’
‘It seems like Christmas to get a handful of trio sonatas in a concentrated, bright and engaging interpretation from the early music ensemble Bergen Baroque. They give this music life.’
Olav Egil Aune
VårtLand - 26 April 2006
‘...The performances overall are first-rate. A welcome release from an important independent label.’
William Yeoman
Classical Source
‘A disc of real rarities, this… […] this collection, beautifully played by Bergen Barokk, and with a splendidly clear recorded sound, […] allows us to discover a little-known repertoire and fill another historical gap in our ever-expanding knowledge of the music of this period.’
Ivan Moody
International Record Review - January 2006
Sound **** Performance ****
‘...Bertouch’s sonatas are charming and, often, cleverly wrought. Bergen Barokk plays them persuasively... [...] Recorded balance is admirable ... In all, a welcome and revealing collection of first recordings.’
George Pratt
BBC Music - November 2005
‘...Toccata Classics’ Bertouch is everything a CD of baroque chamber music should be… a wholly delightful collection of trio sonatas […] Charming and fresh’
Peter Graham Woolf
Musical Pointers - March 2006
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