Browse: Monteverdi - Lamento d'Arianna 'Lasciatemi morire', SV 107

The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Weird but distinctly wonderful, this programme exploring the connections between the emerging early music and cabaret scenes in early twentieth-century Paris finds d'Oustrac not so much chewing... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, August 2023 More…

Three things stand out about Alessandrini's version. First, his extraordinary feel for the words… Second, his revised edition which gives him access to newly revealed dissonances… And third,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The star item in the opera selections is the aria 'Possente spirto'...[Charles Daniels] is vocally clear and magically acrobatic in the melodic cascades...Connolly's rendering of Poppea's farewell... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Mameli] provides an object lesson in how vocal precision need not inhibit passionate commitment. Her clarity and response to the texts is exceptional: the first phrase of Caccini’s Dolcissimo... — The Observer, 26th November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

ferociously alive...It’s been good to return to the album and its startling immediacy. — New York Times, 4th December 2013 More…

This group of performers is commendably aware of [the] move towards expressive freedom: we get from them searing moments of deep anguish...and mesmerising stillness...[and] the finest performance... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The instrumental contributions throughout are a real highlight…and Mields’s artless delivery makes for an attractive and infinitely listenable recital, even if musical passions never quite glow... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…