Dacapo

The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Taking Bach’s predecessor Buxtehude as its focal point, Hillier’s programme steers a chronological passage through the events of Christ’s nativity, illustrating them with music by Buxtehude... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Roed's] playing is cleanly articulated and stylish. This is not a particularly virtuoso programme for her, and the well-judged primus inter pares balance with the ever-excellent Polish string... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

Hillier’s lovely performance is on a par with the very finest that the Buxtehude discography has to offer — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Mainly marimba but as each three variations cycle passes they add another percussion instrument until there is another final almost riotous explosion of sound before the reflective return of... — Record Review, November 2018 More…

Singing one-to-a-part, they produce splendidly full tone...These fine cantatas show that Buxtehude was much more than just a predecessor of Bach. The performances are both spirited and spiritual,... — Classic FM Magazine, February 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…