Håkan Hardenberger

Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This delicate and daring performance gives a clear impression of two musicians for whom verbal communication might well be less fertile than musical. The approach, in which instruments often... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny... — The Times, 10th March 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Hardenberger is superb, as always—as is BIS’s SACD sound. All in all, this is a very enjoyable romp through the modern trumpet-and-orchestra repertoire, with enough differences among the three... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Sally Beamish has the Gaelic art of keening down to a fine art. Scotland is her adopted home, and its history and culture course through music that so often finds its starting point in something... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…