Browse: Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra (chamber ensemble)

A splendid collection of overtures and concertos by this unjustly neglected composer. Sparkling strings, punchy horns. With four premiere recordings, this is essential listening. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the playing, though stylish, has a slightly impersonal quality, resulting in the music sounding under-characterised. Nevertheless, there are some notable highlights: the G major Concerto's delightfully... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

It’s all top-drawer stuff. Not least thanks to the beautifully blended sound of the whole: crisp strings, mellow woodwind, subtle-but-there harpsichord and theorbo and a gorgeous soft-focus halo... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018 More…

With a barrage of astringent chord clusters at the beginning of his ballet Les Élémens, Jean-Fery Rebel brings the soundworld of Ligeti kicking and screaming to 18th-century Paris...The Philadelphians... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

They are tidy performances of what are equally tidy but otherwise fairly unremarkable mid-18th century pieces, though the sonatas da chiesa and sonatas di camera indicate Janitsch was writing... — The Guardian, 11th January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Though horns are rather distant, CD sound is clean and bright in this live performance of a most welcome addition to the repertoire. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

I particularly liked Tempesta di Mare's vigorous, spiky strings in [Leclair's] 'Air des silvains' and the 'Premier air de demons'…delightful music, delightfully played — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…