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As the programme unfolds from deft basse danses to Marchetto Cara’s sprightly Tante volte si si si we hear an impressive and persuasive attempt to uncover Leonardo’s subliminal music. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars(Recording) More…

Throughout this album Cinquecento are at the top of their game. Stylistically speaking, I would suggest similarities with The Hilliard Ensemble. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

The debut album of the ensemble Taracea is nothing if not creative…Like the music itself, the interpretations are highly eclectic, drawing freely on jazz, improvisation, folk, Latino and non-Western... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The voices are extraordinarily well matched and this CD continues Glossa's tradition of recording with a single microphone pair. The sound is considered and mellow, yet each individual moment... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Wilkinson’s androgynous, straight tone chafes vividly against the viols – a smooth gloss on a pitted sound that creates necessary variety and beauty in a disc that might easily have been a historical... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 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…