Gesualdo

Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

As magical a musical experience as this imposing score has ever afforded on record. A fascinating programme, prepared and sung to the highest imaginable standards — Fanfare More…

Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

Few vocalists if any could match this group for their tuning. In works such as Dolcissima mia vita) with its chromatic ending and its flickering lines at the word 'fire'), the effect is superbly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Both Kaljuste's orchestra and his instinct are good ones; the insistent suspensions of Gesualdo's vocal writing - not so much sliding as grinding over one another - translate beautifully for... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

This is a highly polished modern brass quintet playing Renaissance arrangements with solemn precision and occasional dancing exuberance. The recorded sound’s terrific and the project is well-documented — MusicWeb International, 6th June 2013 More…