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Camerata Bern accompanies the violinist on this latest foray into the meaning of life, the universe and everything. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The opening Dies Irae, with Prohaska intoning with hieratic fervour over a drone bass, may suggest that we're in for a pretty gloomy hour, but thereafter there's plenty of edgy vitality here.... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, March 2022 More…

Their approach is rather different from the refined blend of such pioneering groups as Gothic Voices; exploiting, instead, the contrasts in timbre and character between the four voices and varying... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

Machaut at his most engaging and varied...this really is one bullseye after another...Rarely since the Gothic Voices has the vocalisation of the lower lines appeared so self-evidently the right... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017 More…

[Venner and Dobell] display the most magnificent articulation of the texts alongside the understanding of the lines gained from their senior colleagues...Those who know the Orlando Consort will... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

This collection has been programmed with considerable care. Machaut's glorious Messe de Nostre Dame forms its centre, both in terms of its musical substance and its famously provocative rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

That evergreen theme of courtly love inspires in Machaut extraordinary harmonies and beautiful, primitive counterpoint. The singers combine pin-sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…