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Not surprisingly, [the performances] are much in the same vein as in Vol. 1, which is to say bright and buoyant, with no tricks or surprises but plenty of energy and brilliance. Bonizzoni’s playing... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

This 'choir' provides heartfelt congregational ardour in chorales, the hysterical ferocity of a crowd thirsting for blood, and objective commentary as onlookers in the opening and closing choruses.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the chamber choir on this recording sings this music of power and profound melancholy with the intimacy of madrigal singers. Things become audible that I’d never heard before. They are particularly... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Forget the less than perfect presentation and enjoy the top-drawer singing. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2021 More…

There is a pleasing quality to Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos, which achieves the difficult task of combining subtle artifice and interpretative joie de vivre with... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

freedom from portentousness and unwarranted indulgence...If you are in the market for a chamber-scale performance of these four works in up-to-the-minute sound, you'll not go far wrong with these,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Period-instrument ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria takes the contrapuntal dexterity by the scruff of the neck and the musicians revel in readings that ooze brio and boisterous élan. Just occasionally... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…