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The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

While his Stabat Mater and Magnificat are relatively well-known, there are other sacred works which, if this CD is anything to go by, are equally fine and deserve hearing. Backed by the musicological... — Classical Music, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Lacking the brightness of trebles or sopranos, the vocal sound is warm, dark, plangent – compared with the glassy textures of The Tallis Scholars (who’ve recently recorded Josquin’s complete... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Whether singing or playing instruments, the musicians take great care not to overplay the composer’s subtle, complex counterpoint or to lose a sense of the overall line in the many virtuosic... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Bridelli's strong mezzo voice provides fine advocacy for Porpora's long lyrical lines, especially in 'Nume che reggi' and in the drama of 'Dolce è su queste', a richly accompanied recitative. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2019 More…

Carmignola asserts his own special interpretative proclivities: the magical musical intakes of breath during and at the ends of phrases, the endlessly flexible handling of dynamics, and a temporal... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

To get an idea of the soundworld of Stefano Bernardi, an Italian plying his trade in early-17th-century Salzburg, think Monteverdi but without the flamboyance. He benefits from nicely nuanced... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

there’s a real sense of a relaxed, even jazzy leaning into not just the music’s but the plucked string’s poignantly evanescent quality. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…