SACD, Handel (composer)

Sir Colin Davis's way with Messiah, as recorded live at the Barbican last December, is old-fashioned by present-day standards. His soloists are all good. The Tenebrae Choir, with its thirty-odd... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 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…

Emma Kirkby… sings four solo cantatas… These showpieces make immense technical demands… But splendid though such displays are, it is her sense of characterisation which sets her apart. She... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The finely focused Bach Choir often sounds uncannily of almost chamber proportions, in 'The many rend the skies' (Alexander's Feast), and the wondering description of Christ's miracle in Handel's... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ruby Hughes’s vocalism fits Frasi’s song perfectly…Cummings turns even the rawest musical material into gold…this disc is a treat, illuminating why Frasi and her music commanded a huge following. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…