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Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the musical journey is compelling...Only an arrangement for strings of Lotti’s most famous Crucifixus feels like a misstep in an otherwise ingeniously plotted project delivered with panache... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be stopped in your tracks at the outset of this Franco-Italian programme from three of France’s most interesting new-generation Baroque musicians. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Gens fits Médée to her vocal arts: when wounded, her pitches drip with sorrow; when threatening, her crescendos gather like storm clouds; when enraged, she lays waste to all other parts...Niquet... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This King Arthur is a giddy triumph for its artists. Blazing their way through the score, the performers set a new benchmark, delivering a production that’s equally gutsy and gorgeous…Dance... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is fluency and panache in the sequence of concise and flowing movements, and interspersed amid the grandeur accomplished soloists emerge from the choir for moments of intimacy. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

On paper this may look like an unlikely musical partnership...yet put them together and the result is musical dynamite...this captivating recital really goes into overdrive with Ravel’s Sonata...More... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In both suites he communicates with assurance the sequence of dances which follow the preludes though, partly no doubt through force of habit, I found myself every now and again yearning for... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…