Reviews

Record of the Week: 'As Serse, mezzo Emily D’Angelo demonstrates real range from forceful to flirtatious ... Brilliant entertainment.'

'Harry Bicket conducts a performance as vividly alive as the opera must have seemed when it was new.'

Recording of the Week: 'There’s a lot of music packed into this album ... and Whelan’s thoughtful reconstructive efforts are well worth a listen.'

'Hasse’s Concerto is pure delight and showcases some gorgeous wind-playing.'

'The charm of this lively album comes from these new harmonies for melodies that are not ...'

Editor's Choice: 'A match made in heaven deliver a corker of a concept album ... Prohaska bends and wields her darkly-coloured, rich soprano with feline ease, and Kopatchinskaja matches her with her own glowing, sinuous phrasing.'

Music Choice: '... this new release, both exciting and polished, confirms that they will be a force to be reckoned with ...'

'The English Concert and a stellar cast excel in Handel’s opera seria.'

'... a stirring performance of Handel’s Water Music in a suite edited by Walsh, horns blaring and rasping as they surely must have done in Charles Vernsberg’s hands ... It sounds wonderful actually.'