Reviews

 

“A remarkable musician, authority and expert on a notoriously tricky instrument, Anneke never forgets that performing is about communicating enjoyment and having the courage of one’s convictions.  Concerts with Anneke are always a musical adventure!” (Andrew Manze).

 

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“In Anneke Scott we have a ”natural“ horn player in more ways than one.  On an instrument which is perilous at the best of times her technique is such that one is aware only of intellect, musicianship and a glorious pallet of sound.  It is a joy to work with her.” (Pavlo Beznosiuk).

 

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“Anneke Scott...one of the finest horn soloists I have ever heard in the Quoniam tu solus sanctus.  I normally forgive horn players for all sorts of wheezes and auditory oddities, but this was absolute perfection...  The CD is a must-have.” (John Butt/Dundein Consort & Players Bach Mass in B minor Concert, St John’s, Smith Square reviewed by Andrew Benson-Wilson for The Early Music Review).

 

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“Anneke Scott’s sparky horn playing and Matthew Brook’s conversational authority conspire to take no prisoners.” (John Butt/Dundein Consort & Players Bach Mass in B minor reviewed in Gramophone).

 

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“Matthew Brook’s Quoniam is as fluent as the impeccable horn obbligato of Anneke Scott”

(John Butt/Dundein Consort & Players Bach Mass in B minor reviewed in BBC Music Magazine).

 

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“Have valveless horns ever sounded so trouble-free for modern players?”

(James R. Oestreich, New York Times reviewing Gardiner/ORR live performance at Carnegie Hall, NY).

 

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“Sublime too is the horn playing in ‘Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang’ “

(The Independent on Sunday reviewing Gardiner/ORR Brahms )

 

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“Kati Debretzeni’s bucolic dancing solo violin...will stay long in the memory.  As will Anneke Scott’s rumbustious horn playing...in the Quoniam to solus sanctus.”

(EBS/Gardiner live performance reviewed in The Times).

 

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“Noteworthy [were] the solo obbligati in the arias.  Best of all were those in the two bass arias:  Anneke Scott ‘s characterful horn line in “Quoniam tu solus sanctus” and the gracefully duetting oboes d’amore in “Et in Spiritum Sanctum.” (Christophers/The Sixteen/Barbican live performance reviewed in opera-britannia.com)

 

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“In the “Quoniam tu solus” you just had to switch off and enjoy Anneke Scott’s mastery of her capricious but characterful-sounding horn obligato.”

(Christophers/The Sixteen/Barbican live performance reviewed in theartsdesk.com)

 

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“Mención especial merece Annek Scott, y su impresionante lección de trompa natural en la parte obligato con que cuenta en el aria Quoniam tu solus Sanctus.”  

(Christophers/The Sixteen/Cuenca live performance reviewed in www.mundoclasico.com)

 

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“This short lunchtime concert was the musical cousin of a good gin and tonic.  Each of the three pieces involved both Anneke Scott (natural horn - ie without helpful additions such as valves) and Kathryn Cok (fortepiano) in near equal measures.  Both played with a combination of lemon zestiness and icy control.

From her initial note onwards in Antonin Reicha’s Solo in E minor, Scott showed her mastery of her difficult instrument, drawing out its sensitivity during the andante as much as its vibrancy during the other movements.  She and Cok were especially well blended throught Nikolaus von Kruft’s Sonata in E Major, with the latter excelling at the introductions to each movement intertwined throught Beethoven’s Sonata in F Major.

The two provided a suprising encore in the form of an adaptation of Schubert’s Ave Maria. Usually, I loathe this work.  However. Ms Scott produced a breezy interpretation that swept away images of suffocating church interiors and replaced it with sunnier vistas of hills and rivers.  Mine’s a double!“ (Paul Simon, The Mercury).

 

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“A stylish and informative recital.” (Jackie Wallace, Essex County Standard).

 

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“Virtuoso performances followed, Anneke Scott playing the natural horn in Joseph Haydn’s Concerto in D major (1762).  She handled this amazing instrument with consummate ease.“ (Gill Forestier-Walker, East Anglia Daily Times).

 

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”Anneke Scott’s clear rounded tone and flawless technique resulted in a beautifully controlled performance of Haydn’s D major Horn Concerto.”  (Jackie Wallace, Essex County Standard).

 

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”Truly exciting horn playing from Anneke Scott.” (MusicWeb International).

 

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Click here to view blog and photos of Magnatune House Concert Sunday 28th of May, 2006.