Alison Melville
Reviews

 

"Remarkably expressive...a performance of clarity, style and secure intonation."
-- The Globe & Mail, Toronto

"Alison Melville underlines with crystal-clear playing that the recorder can be a most expressive instrument." -- Alte Musik Aktuell

"The dazzling Toronto Consort sings and plays as if they had just been let out of their winter hibernation and were ready to make up for lost time, including some very hot recorder playing by Alison Melville."
--Southern California Early Music News

"...la flutiste a commencé le concert avec une exécution pleine de brio et de finesse..."
-- Le Soleil, Québec

"There are many recorder players around who can do phenomenal things with their seemingly simple instrument - Melville is certainly one of these, as is evident from her lightning-fast and superbly controlled playing...her playing is always centred, full of telling detail, and sympathetically integrated with her assisting artists."
--Classical Music Magazine

"Melville is a capable instrumentalist, articulating the music cleanly yet expressively...It is a measure of Melville¹s musicianship that she manages to find all the music in the less ambitious works as well."
-- Fanfare

"Melville is one of Canada's finest recorder players and a musician with the imagination to bring an element of playfulness to what could easily sound like formulaic note-spinning."
-- The Toronto Star

"Alison Melville dazzled the audience and the sustained applause was indicative of her virtuoso playing."
-- Parksville-QualicumNews