Browse: Feo (composer)

The Polish countertenor gives a lithe and affecting performance on this debut album, a collection of largely unrecorded sacred baroque arias. Il Pomo d’Oro flutter and fizz. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Feo’s score is not a masterpiece on the level of Bach and Handel…but it is a work of skill and some imagination, especially in terms of the orchestral writing. It’s often ornate da capo arias... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Talenti Vulcani and conductor Emanuele Cardi offer crisp, undemonstrative accompaniment throughout, maintaining the spirit of the works’ original liturgical setting in a recording that offers... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

Short ritornellos featuring some extraordinary harmonic details are played superbly by La Divina Armonia's single strings, and the singers are routinely excellent...Doron Schleifer's bright Evangelist... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

Invernizzi is sovereign, commanding the band with the authority of an absolute ruler. Her execution dazzles through its seeming ease, as even fiendishly difficult passages yield to her delight... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These excellent performances reveal that Feo's solo, vocal ensemble, choral and orchestral writing is consistently accomplished and charming. Matthias Jung does an impressive job of directing... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 More…