Academy of Ancient Music

Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Reiss manages coloratura passages with ease, her tone bright and clear, her voice firm throughout its considerable range and she is always wonderfully in tune…The Academy of Ancient Music gives... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020More…

I can’t think of anything that would improve this package: performances are stylish and beautifully polished. The recording is a beauty — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 9th March 2007More…

The work is fluent, imaginatively orchestrated with impressive contrapuntal writing…This enjoyable, well recorded rendition, with lovely solo singing, has clear passionate advocacy; notwithstanding... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

This formidably well-documented project is matched by a comparably sympathetic performance, Egarr paces the piece unhurriedly, recognising Handel’s often vivid responses to Brockes’s graphic... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, 5 out of 5 starsMore…