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Seventy minutes with Death for company may look like hard going but such is the expressive depth and profound consoling beauty of the works assembled here, and so committed and responsive the... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020 More…

Their performances apply conversational sophistication to contrapuntal intricacy, nowhere more so than in the softly rapturous slow passages during Sonata IX...These outstanding performances... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

The nine works — eight sonatas and an adventurously chromatic keyboard toccata by Michelangelo Rossi — are played with compelling eloquence. — Sunday Times, 8th November 2020 More…

To best reflect the regal setting for the earliest performances of these works, Irving has gathered together a rich continuo ensemble of four musicians and the resulting array of ever-changing... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

an excellent collection of some of the most colourful and imitative instrumentals pieces written in the reign of Leopold I in Vienna, Salzburg and Rome … colourful playing, a rich recording to... — CD Review, 26th March 2015 More…

There are some standout moments on this album. First there is the superlative singing of Jonathan Sells in Biber’s Nisi Dominus aedificaverit Domum, sonorous and rounded all the way down to his... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…