Browse: Alia Vox (label)

The strings have a particularly inviting elastic, ‘gutty’ sound, free of the sparkle and sharp attack of metal-strung instruments. The mellow-toned period woodwind are particularly beautiful,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

As is customary with Jordi Savall's projects, the album presents vivid theatre for the ear...The performances by La Cappella and Hespèrion are as magical as ever — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is an entrancing CD, with dances, laments, and feast-day songs linked in a slow-quick-slow structure. Perhaps as an implicit tribute to Montserrat Figueras, there are no vocal numbers, but... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With a large and varied orchestra and (optional) surround sound, Jordi Savall revels in the unmatched opulence, extravagance and scale of mid-18th century France...The music is divorced from... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

An outstanding disc which I foolishly overlooked back in 1993, not realising Savall et al. were such fine Handelians; it sounds spectacular now, remastered from stereo to effective but not overblown... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The virtuoso Jordi Savall surveys Diego Ortiz's treatise on decoration, variation and improvisation (Rome, 1553). Wonderful. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Savall’s view of the music feels unerringly right throughout, with tempos always judiciously chosen, and Haydn’s famous moments all vividly conveyed...Savall has assembled a fine cast of soloists,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…