Concertos

Catherine Weiss (violin), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), David Blackadder (trumpet), Simon Standage (violin) & Collegium Musicum 90

Torelli:
 Christmas Concerto Op. 8 No. 6
 Concerto con Trombe, G. 18
 Concerto grosso in A minor for two violins, Op. 8 No. 2
 Concerto grosso in B flat major for two violins Op. 8 No. 4
 Concerto grosso in C minor for violin Op. 8 No. 8
 Concerto grosso in E minor for violin Op. 8 No. 9
 Concerto grosso in F major for violin Op. 8 No. 11
 Concerto grosso in G major for two violins Op. 8 No. 5
 Concerto grosso in G minor for two violins, Op. 8 No. 6 'in forma di pastorale per il Santissimo Natale'
 Concerto in D major for two trumpets, strings and basso continuo
 Sinfonia in D major (G 8)
 Sinfonia in D Major, G. 23
 Sinfonia in G major for two trumpets, strings and basso continuo (G 23)
 Sinfonia, G. 8

"Simon Standage and Catherine Weiss are well-matched in the double concertos, from hair-raising momentum to lovely slow-movement dialogue. In the solo concertos, Standage sometimes sacrifices impulsion to expressive gesture in fast movements but elsewhere he's dazzling, and he growls away on lower strings with tremendous energy in the final track on the disc."
BBC Music Magazine - May 2006 ****

"The performances are stylistically sensible and musically unfussy, with a bright airiness of tone aided by the deliberate (and authentic) omission of double basses from the string texture."
Gramophone Magazine - May 2006