Browse: La Tempête (early music ensemble)

the All-Night Vigil appears here a denuded museum artefact, displayed alongside a distantly related musical tradition that ’s presented in a more vibrant and authentic style. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

Choral blend and enunciation are immaculate, at their very best in Martin's Songs of Ariel…it's particularly good to see 'Let mine eyes run down with tears' among the more familiar numbers -... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

The performance by La poème harmonique is excellent. The instrumental ensemble is tightly controlled by conductor Vincent Dumestre, and the individual styles of each of the pieces emerges with... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2023 More…

The selections from Israelis Brünnlein alone are worth the price of admission. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

It’s certainly not the marble-fronted, coolly classical city so many accounts of this work would suggest. La Tempête’s Venice is all cosmopolitan collisions, the crossroads of Europe – busy,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…