‘The music itself is joyous and comforting. The St Paul’s Cathedral Choir (comprising boy choristers and Vicars Choral) sings superbly, the playing of the St Paul’s Mozart Orchestra (very much ‘authentic’) is poised and polished, and there is a notable contribution from Simon Johnson on the lovely organ of St Giles’ Cripplegate, where these performances were so excellently recorded. Add in four fine vocal soloists and we have sacred music that is uplifting and engaging. Texts are included and the conductor writes the helpful booklet note’ (Time Out)

‘Mozart's musical planning is exemplary; this is a subtly devised and well-executed record’ (International Record Review)

'This excellent recording is probably the one that Mozart completists will want to have' (The Daily Telegraph)» More

'This performance is as committed and engaging if you could wish for' (BBC Radio 3 CD Review)» More

‘Hewitt draws great delicacy from her Fazioli piano … strongly recommended’ (Liverpool Daily Post)

‘Angela Hewitt’s recording is perfection itself—not just in how precisely she places each and every note, but in how she and the orchestra sound as if they are breathing and working as one’ (Musical Toronto, Canada)

‘The success of her performances of K595 and the G major, K453, rests in part on Hewitt's feeling for Mozart's remarkable harmonic and tonal range in both works … Mozart gives us plenty more surprises … Hewitt relishes these, as if freshly exploring and delighting in them … these characteristics of intelligent delight in the music also mark Hewitt's performance of the G major Concerto … it is brilliantly done, and this is a brilliant performance all round’ (International Record Review)

‘The sparkling G major Concerto K453, where Hewitt displays her pianistic talents to full advantage. Particularly enjoyable are the concluding variations … in which she seems completely at one with the alert playing of the Mantua Chamber Orchestra under Hannu Lintu’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘The sound is wonderfully clean and focused, with an ideal balance between Hewitt's customary Fazioli piano and the orchestra … [K453 finale] Here Lintu starts the movement with light-footed grace, using minimal vibrato on the strings, Hewitt taking her cue with playing of elegance and buoyancy … the attention to musical contrast and stylistic integrity is similar throughout. Hewitt's own illuminating notes in the booklet are a bonus, making this a Mozart release to cherish’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘The Andante of K453 evokes the finest in Hewitt, its trajectory exposed through pathos and proud gesture, the pauses treated as silences to generate expectancy for daring harmonic modulations. That's model musicianship’ (Gramophone)

'A bright radiance surrounds the outer movements, the first purposeful, the last almost a joyous 'hunting' finale, while the Larghetto, yearning in mood, finds Bax occasionally decorating his line' (Gramophone)

‘Hewitt is a spry Mozartian, and she infuses the players of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova with lively spirit to match. Her playing is effortlessly nimble … her phrasing is actually finely balanced in ways that preserve the music from the threat of sounding like patter. And the sense of give-and-take between soloist and orchestra is first-rate’ (The Irish Times)