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Forqueray: Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë Paris, 1747
Recorded in Montevarchi di Arezzo, Italy, in February 1994 and April 1995
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Guido Balestracci (viola da gamba), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo & Baroque guitar), Eduardo Egüez (theorbo & Baroque guitar) & Guido Morini (harpsichord)
I love the shifting textures in this recording as plucked and bowed strings entwine themselves in different combinations in the continuo parts. Pandolfo frees himself from metric restraints,... —
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André Campra: Gli strali d’Amore Divertimento immaginario
Recorded in Brunello, Italy, in November 2010
Roberta Invernizzi (Leonora), Cyril Auvity (Lelio), Salvo Vitale (Il Dottore) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
The instrumental contribution is superb. Roberta Invernizzi is dramatically effective and often delightful in the more extended lyrical moments, if not always comfortable in terms of pitch.... —
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Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Orchestral version, 1786)
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
…in this live period-instrument interpretation tempos are finely judged and the many expressive effects in Haydn's depiction of the last words of Jesus are recorded in the gospels are powerfully... —
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Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin IV: Ordre 25ème in E flat major: Les ombres errantes
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)
Meyerson does indeed find her own way in each of the 25 pieces, delivering interpretations that are decisive, strong-minded and unafraid to play for effect. Phrasing and rhetoric are emphasised... —
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Book 7 (1619) gathers together works that must have been written many years apart. The common denominator is its consistent use of instruments in conjunction with the voices. Recording the complete... —
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Hervé Niquet celebrated the 15th anniversary of his group Le Concert Spirituel by assembling a hundred musicians at the Arsenal de Metz to produce what is claimed as 'the first historical recording'... —
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In their Monteverdi Editions, La Venexiana bring a dramatic delivery of the words and a uniquely Italian blend of solo voices to this glorious music, unrivalled on disc. —
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