Browse: Presto Recordings of the Year, Gluck (composer)

Jaroussky manages the edition’s higher keys well enough (Vienna’s Orfeo was a castrato alto, Naples’s a soprano) and sings sweetly so long as forceful declamation isn’t required. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, More…

[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, More…

There is much coloratura and here, as elsewhere, Anna Bonitatibus is spot-on...This set, sumptuously illustrated, is an absolute must-have. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, More…

At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, More…

At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, More…

[one] cannot help but be struck here by [Fagioli's] even purity of line, the androgynous beauty of his tone and his sparing use of those baritonal lower registers…Equilbey and the Insula Orchestra... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…