Pan Classics

they have skill, precision and a delicious warmth of colour: this is controlled and professional playing...Still, for me the real importance of the disc is in the unimaginably gentle way Ulrike... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

Mineccia approaches all this music with a well-placed and rounded countertenor at its best in its middle register, though capable of fine ringing tones in the upper range…Diction is good and... — Opera, December 2018 More…

That the Naples-born Porpora is no longer big box office has nothing to do with the quality of his music...All have texts that are variations upon the pastoral theme, and all are characterised... — Sunday Times, 14th April 2013 More…

Directing from the organ, Edward Higginbottom proposes that the small chapel at Whitehall lent itself to ‘sacred chamber music’. The contoured madrigalian approach is eminently suitable for... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

Possessed of an innate lyricism Behle is an ideal exponent, never tempted to over-egg the simplicity of early songs, while the opera singer within is ever-alert to Beethoven’s wider-ranging... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…