Alpha

Camerata Bern accompanies the violinist on this latest foray into the meaning of life, the universe and everything. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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…

A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of ‘life in death’, and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere. There are early musical delights,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 3 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…

Some of the disc's most fruitful music-making involves Kopatchinskaja with clarinettist Reto Bieri, including a feisty conjunction of sparky violin and liquid clarinet in Milhaud's Jeu. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This selection… includes some of the most beguiling trouvères chansons, performed with great sensitivity to courtly style by the ensemble Diabolus in Musica. Each of the three singers captures... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

..an atmospheric introduction to some of the brightest musical gems of the 15th century. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…