Château de Versailles Spectacles

This music shows Vivaldi at his orchestral best, with interesting and lively themes, good contrasts in the tempos, and a nice variation of textures. Of course, it does depend upon the performance,... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

The performance by the Opéra Royal period instrument group is lively, well balanced, and provides the perfect accompaniment. Soprano Gwendoine Blondeel has a light, airy, and bright voice, while... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

This entire disc is held together by the capable direction of Marie van Rijn, who offers an accompaniment in which the string orchestra is an equal partner with the voices. The phrasing is precise,... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

As befits a composer who had undergone Neapolitan conservatoire training in the 1760s, Zingarelli’s style owes much to the transitional operatic reforms of the likes of Sacchini (one of his... — Opera, July 2022 More…

Early 18th-century Dandrieu’s organ music springs to life on the contemporaneous Clicquot in the chapel at Versailles, with its sumptuous reeds, velvety corner and mighty plein jeu. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here and there are reminders that Cavalli was above all a composer of opera, And there’s the rub…Some operatic extravagance would be welcome here, the male alto soloists being particularly reticent…The... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…