The Brook Street Band

‘The Brook Street Band has a trademark playing style that’s communicative, energetic and very very zingy in every department… in chamber music from this period, you won’t find more winning and winsome playing.’

Malcolm Hayes, Classic FM Magazine

‘an impressive recording and some infectious music-making from two performers who clearly take great pleasure in playing together.’

Early Music Today

I’m very glad that the BSB have given us all nine [Handel violin sonatas], and all the more so, given the life with which they’ve imbued them… The various ornamentation, articulation and repeat decision have come off brilliantly. You simply don’t know what’s coming next, which I mean in the best possible way. Bravo!’

Gramophone

‘erudite, intimate music, not without violinistic fireworks. The BSB include cello alongside harpsichord for the continuo, satisfyingly grounding the texture. Rachel Harris delivers these eloquent expressions of the violinist’s art with stylish sweetness, her embellishments beautifully measured.’

The Sunday Times

‘[The band members] approach everything with a spring in their step, relishing the harmonic crunches and keeping everything vital and vivacious.’

The Guardian Online

Readers familiar with [The BSB’s] invigorating recordings of Handel’s Trio Sonatas Opp. 2 and 5 will not be disappointed by this new release. The finest music, of which there is much reaches a peak with the D Major sonata HWV371 coming across with natural grace and effective articulation.

BBC Music Magazine 4 *

‘The Brook Street Band plays stylishly, with well-nigh impeccable intonation and tremendous verve… Delightful.’

George Pratt, BBC Music Magazine

‘Hijinks from Handel … Lovely playing from the first sonata right through the last … the performances convince absolutely as does the recording. Add it to The Brook Street Band’s previous albums with complete confidence.’

BBC Radio 3 Record Review

‘Finely balanced, deliciously spiced, infectiously musical!’

Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3

‘This release is a thorough pleasure … Sample one of the fast movements…to hear the vigorous, strongly rhythmic, rather edgy approach favoured by these musicians. Especially noteworthy are the slow-movement gestures of violinist Rachel Harris, which convince the listener that they were the work of a master of opera. More than an album for Handel completists, this is a strong release from a British group that has consistently issued historically informed Baroque performances of passion and co…

AllMusic

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The Brook Street Band is pleased to introduce you to:

Alan Gotto Harpsichords
Matthew King
Aldeburgh Music
The National Centre for Early Music
Rhodes Avenue Primary School
Arts Council England
Nicki Kennedy
Avie Records
PRS for Music Foundation
Dan Bridge
Rhodes Avenue Primary School
The Early Music Company Ltd.
Nicki Kennedy
Ensemble Schirokko
Historische Boegen
PRS for Music Foundation
St. John’s Smith Square
Louis de Bernieres
Rhodes Avenue Primary School
Andrew Wooderson Harpsichords

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