Reviews

'Laurence Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity ... the result sounds simultaneously ‘ancient and modern’. A rarefied pleasure perhaps, but an infinitely illuminating one too.'

Sound quality 95%: 'The Chopin Preludes show so many touches of individuality (as they should) with beautifully soft playing in the tranquil numbers.'

'Pilsan, at only 26 years old, is already a fine communicator of Bach’s rhetoric ... a WTC more than worth your time: bring on Book 2.'

Editor's Choice: 'No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale.'

'A bright performance with playful verve and delightful discoveries'

'The kind of album that leaves its mark.'

'Kate Lindsey at her majestic best ... Just. Don't. Miss. This. One.'

'... this is a win-win performance that should please everyone except those predisposed to one cause or another. If you had to have just one Creation (which I do not recommend!) this might well be it.'

'In the celebrated duet Pur ti miro, Lindsey is joined by the rising-star soprano Nardus Williams as Poppea, both pressing the dissonant harmonies almost to a point of distortion, to expressive and ecstatic effect.'