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The continuo playing is reliable and tasteful, and Butterfield’s sound has an attractive sweetness in all registers that is easy on the ears. He plays with relaxed confidence, and the players... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

As with the other volumes, the performance by violinist Adrian Butterfield is both technically secure and finely nuanced. He brings out Leclair’s style with a good sense of phrasing, and one... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2023 More…

Leclair's Corelli-haunted First Book of Sonatas might have been overshadowed by later volumes, but there's a deal of attractive music to savour. The ensemble interplay is exemplary and the gamba... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…this disc is shaped by exquisite phrasing and studded with lovely Italianate ornamentation and French enflés. The tempi are by turns graceful and exuberant. …Butterfield plays with assurance... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 More…

Violinist Adrian Butterfield is fully adept at bringing out the nuances of Leclair’s music. He performs on a period instrument, but his tone is clear and the technical virtuosity is finely delineated.... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022 More…

…Leclair… produced music that's finely crafted, charmingly tuneful and undeniably spirited. Adrian Butterfield is a worthy champion. The sweetness of his tone, aptness of his tempi and the... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…

Butterfield and his colleagues are sympathetic interpreters, fully conversant with the intimate yet intricate yet intricate French Baroque manner. Most successful are the elegiac slow movements,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Butterfield is pleasingly receptive to the French ‘beau chant’, bringing expressive warmth and affective gestures to slow movements...It is to be hoped that Butterfield and his excellent continuo... — Early Music Today More…

Modern pitch and Fenwick's tone suggest a modern flute, but he's no less stylish for all that. Eight solo sonatas and two trios from the founder of the French violin school creating distinctive,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

We encounter Sarasate’s spontaneity and coalescence of tenacity and timidity in these distinctly Spanish-sounding transcriptions and arrangements...Yang conveys Chopin’s silky Nocturne No. 2... — MusicWeb International, 24th February 2014 More…