Browse: Caresana (composer)

Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2022 More…

Bostridge is at his best in those pieces requiring technically adroit command and intelligent poise...The sunlight returns at the end when Bostridge serves up a wonderfully captivating performance... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This collection of Nativity cantatas suggests a richly colourful, dramatically inclined musical personality...Antonio Florio directs the period instruments of I Turchini pliantly. This is a real... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With playing as light and bubbly as a glass of prosecco, the quasi-ebullience of Domenico Scarlatti's motet and Sinfonias are threaded through a Baroque salutation to Naples' favourite Saint. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Lefebvre’s ardently poetic singing is matched stride for stride by responsively contoured playing; the pathos-laden slower and softer sections are spellbinding … the first lesson for Tenebrae... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

[The Lamentations of Caresana] provide Varriale with opportunities to beautifully emote long, arching phrases that convey restrained yet judicious word-painting, and the instrumental writing... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…