Simpson, C

The performers have gone to great lengths to achieve an authentic sound. Rachel Barton Pine plays a late-Renaissance era fiddle rather than a Baroque violin...But what really seizes the ear... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

of course it’s soprano Carolyn Sampson’s peerless Purcell that steals the show – whether inhabiting tortured madness, or the airborne, caressing grace of an opening set from The Fairy Queen.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…