Glossa

The songs certainly display the feverish shifts between exhilaration and despair built into much baroque music. Frescobaldi’s contemporary Monteverdi admittedly writes more memorable tunes,... — The Guardian, 9th February 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Moreno on his 1761 Gagliano is sunny of outlook and sweetly austere of playing style, articulation subtly detached, with vibrato switching between light and none. Zapico, meanwhile, is eloquent... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018More…

The fifth-century Roman philosopher’s reflections on life were set to simple music by medieval musicians. Sequentia brings the melodies to life with beautiful counterpoint. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Three-quarters of the gut-string London Haydn Quartet warm their sound with the merest hints of vibrato … entirely enjoyable — Gramophone Magazine, September 2017More…

An album that has balance everywhere… This begins with the ensemble instrumentalists using plain unwound gut strings for a nicely soft and dark sound over which the soloists, on silver-wound... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019More…

Conducted expertly by György Vashegyi, the Budapest-based Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra produce characterful panache, heroic swagger, balletic deftness and suave charm as each selection... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018More…

Cavasanti plays different sizes of recorder, and the results are mainly convincing. One of the concertos, BWV 1056, has been allotted to the violin, the instrument for which, in all probability,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

The Orchestra of the 18th Century’s renderings of these affable, bustling works have an attractive snap and tang to them. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…