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Flores's softer languid singing aptly conveys a nymph's erotic longing for the return of her lover Jupiter…[Isifile's lament] is sequenced next to a vividly dramatic account of her rival Medea's... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

La Morra prefer a more ruminative and thoughtful approach to the songs that is again entirely different from what has been heard before - including what must be the slowest-ever performance... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 More…

Only a tiny proportion of this repertoire has been recorded, so this wider survey from Ensemble Mare Nostrum is long overdue...The recording ends magnificently with Louis Couperin's rhetorically... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

What better way to mark the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude's death in 1707 than with this wonderful box-set? Its 77 tracks reaffirm what a central figure Buxtehude was to subsequent generations... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Alarcón’s cast is without exception highly personable and youthful sounding. Ana Maria Labin is a captivating Semele, encompassing both the impetuous and tragic sides of the character…This is... — Opera, May 2022 More…

While the pieces by the likes of Dupuits and Lemaire rarely have the ears pricking up with rapt attention, instruments such as the musette and hurdygurdy certainly create a distinctive soundworld. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Marais had given up playing by the time he wrote these works, and reportedly preferred to tend his garden. The pieces are short and full of contrast, flowing one into another with meditative... — The Observer, 9th July 2023 More…

The program is designed mainly to show off the bright and clear voice of Roset, who handles everything...with ease and without sacrificing any of the purity of her tone. Her voice, in fact,... — Fanfare, March/April 2023 More…