On the 11th August I played some Telemann tracks live on Dutch Radio 4. You can listen back via their website: http://www.radio4.nl/opiumop4/uitzending/524138/opium
Just follow the link and click on “luister terug”. I play three times, at 5’00, at 25’55 and at 55’00
Quite nerve-racking to struggle to speak in dutch and play this tricky music live!
On Sunday the 3rd September I’ll officially present my Telemann CD in the beautiful surroundings of the Cromhouthuis Museum on the Amsterdam canal ring. Of course there will be a lot of music to be enjoyed!
Tickets via: http://www.geelvinck.nl/muziek/concertagenda/
You can already pre-order my brand new disk of the Telemann viola da gamba Fantasias on the Resonus Classics website. Also available in the other usual places.
In this months BBC Music Magazine The Excellency of Hand was awarded 5 stars. The review said some very nice things such as:
Gamba demons Paolo Pandolfo and Robert Smith (early music’s Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid) have concocted an intoxicating brew of pieces that would surely convert the most hardened sceptic.
Yesterday I received the first edit of my recording of the Telemann Fantasias for viola da gamba (see here). It’s really exciting to finally have my hands on it! I need to sit down and give it some careful listening, but I’m already rather happy with the sound and the playing – it isn’t always like that! Of course there will always be things that you wish you had done differently. It’s out on 4th August, so you can decide for yourself!
Korte en krachtige recensie in De Volkskrant!
Smith en Pandolfo rakelen gonzende klanken op
On 29th April The Excellency of Hand was featured on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review. Presenter Andrew McGregor said some very nice things about the recording, and mine and Paolo Pandolfo’s playing:
“their interplay is absolutely wonderful throughout”
“Immediately joining my favourite viol recordings it’s THAT good, a huge smile on my face listening to that”
The range of atmospheres and textures in these pieces is remarkable. The viols converse in the most charming manner, when they aren’t sharing grave sentiments or trying to outdo each other with torrents of lightning-quick notes.
Wow! Being a Yorkshireman myself I was reeet proud to get a 5 star review in the Yorkshire Post!
“These are performances of refinement and subtlety”
Robert Smith Viola da Gamba & Baroque Cello 
