Reviews

15 Best Classical Recordings of 2022 #8: 'The Marian Consort, directed by Rory McCleery, has selected the most interesting of those that represent the chromatic experiments of the contrapuntal art ...'

Critics' Choice 2022: 'My top recommendation from this year is Michał Gondko’s album of lute music ...'

15 Best Classical Recordings of 2022 #5: '... the choice of motets and chansons was inspired by the contents of two codices preserved in Florence, and one could therefore rather speak of polyphonies of the Oltremontani with Florentine resonances.'

2022 Critics' Choice: 'Directed by Harry Bicket this crack team of Handelians meets its match with The English Concert ...'

Critics' Choice 2022: '... an irresistible and ebullient showcase of harpsichord wizardry.'

'... the most successful performance on the disc is undoubtedly that of the curious Brazilian triptych, where one can find concentrated all the merits of the conductor's refined colourism ...'

'It's a recording as luminous as the polyphony it is framing ...'

'It's a wonderful (re)discovery of these African-American works ... Kellen Gray pays attention to the minute details of Still's warm score, while he revels in the romantic outbursts and continual changes of pace that shake up Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony ...'

Top 15 Albums of 2022 #1: '... a performance that feels like a theater of the voice.'