SACD, Vivaldi (composer)

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…

Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Jordi Savall eats this kind of thing for breakfast and marshals his forces with military efficiency – except the performance is looser and more spontaneous than that sounds, and riveting from... — Choir & Organ, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars 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…