Glossa

Hervé Niquet and his stylish group of musicians are no strangers to Charpentier's music, but here they sound on exceptional form with evenly balanced vocal and instrumental ensembles and a rewardingly... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a reconstruction of a Mass for the Assumption as it might have been heard in Toledo Cathedral in about 1580. It follows very much the pattern established by the group's previous discs,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The northern and southern Italian madrigal traditions meet in the person of Sigismondo d'India. The date of publication of this, his FirstBook of Madrigals (1606) reveals him to be one of the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The voices of La Compagnia del Madrigale bring dramatic fervour and expressive subtlety to bear upon Monteverdi’s deep psychological insight. The five and six-part vocal textures are transparent... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It almost goes without saying that a Hervé Niquet recording of Charpentier is going to be a thing of beauty. Whether it's in the long build-up to the top of the grand arch that's the opening... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The performance here is one of smouldering sensuality. The verve of the director's gestures generates huge excitement, while the sharp contrast of colours between each singer's voice - the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Galli has a stylish approach, agile in fast movements, ornaments decorating rather than distorting Handel's lines. She is though, so bound up in the anguish of unrequited love, the common thread,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 3 out of 5 stars More…