Reviews
A superbly compelling rendering
Gramophone Magazine, Andrew Achenbach Editor's Choice, September issue
Beautiful tone, immaculate technique and sensitive phrasing
Lakeland Sinfonia, Clive Walkley
The incredible range and dynamism of the Trio Meister Raro
Carlisle Music Society, Carolyn Fyfe
A phenomenal player … his tone, technique, and musicianship are flawless
British Music Society, Paul RW Jackson
Plane gives an inspiring performance … everyone does a tremendous job
Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine, Chris Walters
All four pieces could not have more sympathetic advocacy than by Plane
Gramophone Magazine, Richard Whitehouse
Rich tone, nuanced playing and compellingly dramatized account
Limelight, Clive Paget - Editor's Choice
You’ll be assured of splendid and fully communicative performances
MusicWeb International, Jonathan Woolf
Plane has the work’s full measure – Geoff Brown enjoys Iain Hamilton’s “compelling concerto”
BBC Music Magazine, Geoff Brown
No praise is too high for Robert Plane’s musicianship, virtuosity and sensitivity
Colin's Column, Colin Anderson
Stunningly performed … intense focus and virtuoso technique … a magical sonic experience
Classical Sonoma, Abby Wasserman
Threw himself into his athletic lines with glee and abandon
Seen and Heard International, Paul Corfield Godfrey
A Perfect Partnership at the Ilkley Concert Club
Sacconi Quartet and Robert Plane at the King’s Hall, Chris Skidmore "A Perfect Partnership" "His virtuosity was never in doubt" "The rich chocolate tones of the bass clarinet contrasted with but never dominated the texture, showing what an excellent ensemble player Robert Plane is"
Robert Plane gives a very fine reading [of Finzi Clarinet Concerto] for Naxos
His playing is fluent and purposeful, with plenty of character; he is suitably indignant at the close of the first movement and displays an emphatic chalumeau register in the second. He shades dynamics with great sensitivity and the rondo is wonderfully good-natured
Robert Plane, Philip Dukes and Huw Watkins – unerring control
"Speak Seven Seas for clarinet – played by Robert Plane, with Dukes on viola and Watkins on piano – had an apparently easy ebb and flow, but its dramatic tension was manipulated with the same unerring control."
A perfect balance of structural exactitude and lyricism – Gould Trio with clarinettist Robert Plane
The Guardian, Rian Evans
Further Reviews
"With.. Robert Plane in the Clarinet Trio, Op 114, it was the mix of eloquently…
Immaculately performed by Robert Plane
The Guardian, Andrew Clements Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958) became known as “the cockney Wagner” after the success…
Consistent musicality and enthusiasm
The Sir Arnold Bax Website, Christopher Webber and Graham Parlett
