Alia Vox

There’s real musicality here at the service of imaginative phrasing, with just enough added force to keep everything animated. A “Great” Symphony without longueurs is rare but this is one. — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

Savall shows an awareness not only of the music's sense of drama, but also of its nobility of expression, solemnity and imaginative use of sonority. This is as good a performance of the original... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Catalonia’s resonant Château de Cardona sometimes makes the bassline heavy, the vigorous timpanist often forgets the crucial Beethovenian difference between one f and two, and the editor clipped... — Sunday Times, 16th August 2020 More…

The strings have a particularly inviting elastic, ‘gutty’ sound, free of the sparkle and sharp attack of metal-strung instruments. The mellow-toned period woodwind are particularly beautiful,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

it still has the ability to make one sit up and take note, whether it be the brilliance of the woodwind tone, the shimmering tremolo strings with cutting cross-accents driving the music forward... — Early Music Review, 1st April 2016 More…

From the age of 25 Boccherini lived in Spain… and Spanish elements lend distinctive colours to his music. Bubbling high spirits from composer and performers alike produce a most entertaining... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As we expect of this team, Musica Notturna is sumptuously packaged, diligently researched and superlatively-well performed. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…