Reviews

'Her selection of Rachmaninov songs, the majority of them concerned with anguish, heartache and regret, brings out the visceral quality and dramatic expressiveness of her singing ....'

'Altstaedt has his own, compelling view of the piece, one that’s essentially rhapsodic and limber.'

'Two string concertos by Vivaldi complete this colourful and ornamented journey between Naples and Venice. Luminous.'

'We admire how Guillon (conductor but also counter-tenor), his soloists (including Céline Scheen) and his instrumentalists manage, with a reduced number of players, to restore all the subtle elegance of these very codified scores, but which can conceal moments of intense emotion.'

'Piau's airy but well-supported soprano is clear and undulating. Gens' mezzo is generously velvety and as intimatingly true and strong as ever.'

'For the soloist, it is by no means an easy task to evoke the impression that the variations arise out of the moment, to give them something improvisatory despite all the virtuoso demands. Trpceski succeeds quite perfectly in this.'

'The English Concert under the baton of Harry Bicket restores the piece to its rightful place and full splendour on this double CD.'

'Grigorian compels in a recital of bleeding, heart-on-sleeve Rachmaninov.'

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Renaissance Music: 'In Bach’s Leipzig, it was sung on Good Friday as the “last movement” of the Passion — a context recreated in a recording with the Dunedin Consort, directed by John Butt.'