SACD, Vivaldi (composer)

Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The recording’s playful title, Doppio espressivo, brings to mind the dark intensity of a double espresso and, certainly, the group’s high-octane playing on dusky-hued double basses, cellos and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a live recording of an excellent programme with the theme of musical ‘tone painting'...I enjoyed the discs very much. — Early Music Review, 24th January 2016 More…

Some tenuous theming here, but who cares when the music-making - tart and spicy on period-instruments - is so appealing? — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If such a sound word can tire the ears relatively quickly, both players alight sensitively on a deft balance and a simple, galant elegance which characterise almost all these works...Tarkovi's... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

The flexibility and assertiveness of his singing is best heard in excitable arias featuring storms or revenge…That said one of the best tracks here is Handel's superb aria for Cleopatra, 'Se... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…