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The debut album of the ensemble Taracea is nothing if not creative…Like the music itself, the interpretations are highly eclectic, drawing freely on jazz, improvisation, folk, Latino and non-Western... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bruno Cocset and Guido Balestracci take turns playing the solo bass (and sometimes treble) viol parts in these 27 ricercars, effectively elegant fantasies on mostly pre-existing pieces. They... — Sunday Times, 3rd May 2020 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…

While several one-to-a-part readings can bring a chamber-like intimacy, you get the best of all worlds here: red-blooded warmth, intense coloration, grandeur and crackling vigour and not a scintilla... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

a disc steeped in whiskey and woodsmoke, tragic deaths and even more tragic loves...The results are bewitchingly lovely, and more organic than many similar genre-crossing experiments. That's... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…