Browse: Biber - Battalia à 10

Ambitious, magnificent, extraordinary, compelling, fabulous: Jordi Savall’s indomitable vision recreates the soundworld of 100 years of conflict, from the 30 Years War to the War of the Spanish... — Choir & Organ, July/August 2015 More…

an excellent collection of some of the most colourful and imitative instrumentals pieces written in the reign of Leopold I in Vienna, Salzburg and Rome … colourful playing, a rich recording to... — CD Review, 26th March 2015 More…

This is Biber in gargantuan mode … superbly recorded. Groups ranging from solo voices with a pair of recorders to the full ensemble complete with brass and drums are thrown across the huge spaces... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015 More…

While the schabernacks or ‘pranks’ here won’t quite have you guffawing, it’s certainly all delivered with a merry wink…[this repertoire is] rewarding thanks to Lüthi’s playful teasings-out of... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Prepare yourself to embrace the bizarre and bonkers virtuosity of Restoration mad songs and works by Biber and Telemann in these arrangements by Terje Tønnesen and Mihkel Kerem…these are stylish... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The overall balance is amazingly successful, the separation is natural but is all bathed in the richly resonant cathedral ambience. This is a magnificent disc in every way and almost certainly... — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…