Michala Petri has chosen an attractive group of concertos which she plays variously on sopranino, descant and treble recorders. Only the Alessandro Marcello work from among them was written for an instrument other than recorder—it is, in fact, the well-known D minor Oboe Concerto which the young Bach transcribed for solo harpsichord. The Telemann concerto is a delightful piece which also exists in a version for flute in D major. Petri plays its two Menuets gracefully and with poise. For sheer virtuosity we must look to the Vivaldi whilst the Naudot, on the other hand, yields less flamboyant pleasures but greater warmth.
The LP sound was very good and that goes for this CD issue, too. The CD is, perhaps, just a shade more resonant and possesses marginally clearer textural definition but there is not much to choose between the two. Warmly recommended.'