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BBC Music Magazine, The Guardian, Gramophone
A selection of reviews of our latest Dvořák Piano Quartets disc
Paul Driver, Dec 2014, Sunday Times
Paul driver on a heart-warming Dvorak festival.
Harriet Smith, Jan 2013, Gramophone
"The London Bridge Ensemble aren't afraid to tell it like it is... playing that is as compelling as it is rapt..."
Edward Bhesania, Feb 2013, The Strad
"The rapture caused the heart to race while the intensity of expression set the lip a-quiver..."
David Denton, Dec 2012, The Strad
"Kate Gould’s radiant cello sings with lyrical fervour in the outer movements... and in both works the technical aspects of the playing are immaculate..."
Paul Driver, Sunday Times 2011
"This is a disc of a concert and very satisfying it is. The young ensemble, whose name alludes not only to their base, but to their desire to bridge the gap between chamber music and song, and to their admired composer Frank Bridge, perform superbly…."
Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone 2010
"In all four pieces, Daniel Tong tenders immaculate support. The ensemble’s pianist also makes a classy showing in the Thee Sketches (1906), his generous rubato in “rosemary” both apposite and disarming…"
American Record Guide 2010
"These are lovely performances of music that Bridge wrote between the glorious British years of 1904 ad 1912, music filled with succulent harmony, transparency, lyricism, light and shadow"
International Record Review 2010
"A fine performance … another recommendable release from this fine ensemble."
Music and Vision 2007
"Their performance shone from beginning to end, producing endlessly beautiful sounds that defied the acoustics by ringing on in the air beyond the end of the pieces."
The Strad 2008
"The performances from the London Bridge Ensemble wholly capture the engagingly fresh and lyrical content of both scores, and the playing is replete with a passion that yields rich rewards…"
Musical Opinion 2006
"This was indeed the music of friends."
Gramophone 2008
"‘There’s plenty to enjoy in this attractive survey of early Frank Bridge, which is
bookended by mightily impressive accounts of two of the three fastidiously integrated works that the composer entered for W W Cobbett’s prestigious annual chamber music competition."
International Record Review 2008
"The quality of playing and recording here, not to mention Giles Easterbrook’s informative booklet note, is such that this disc deserves an enthusiastic recommendation."
The Strad 2005
"They demonstrated throughout the evening an extraordinary ability to weave and sustain extended melodic lines"
