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Järvi does Tchaikovsky the supreme good service of allowing his earlier symphonies to stand without a sense of special pleading or undue podium tinkering. The string sound is open rather than... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Currentzis reminds us that this is, first and foremost, an opera about desire, and offers us something at once sexier and more probingly tragic. MusicAeterna's playing doesn't have the OAE's... — The Guardian, 13th February 2009 More…

The singing is first class, with Bernard Richter outstanding as Dardanus, while Ensemble Pygmalion bring out all the hues of Rameau’s colourful score — Early Music Today, August 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Haute-contre Reinoud Van Mechelen's top register is impressively sweet in Adones first monologue...and the incantation scene between the desperate sorceress and unhelpful Pluto in Act 4 is compelling... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 More…

Vincent Dumestre's ensemble have produced a vivacious and highly characterised account...[Il combattimento is] given here in a highly rhetorical reading which involves a great deal of improvised... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Soloists Johannette Zomer (Anima) and Marco Beasley (Corpo) communicated the text's rhetoric and poetry with pliant, highly expressive delivery. They're supported by a dazzling miscellany of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…