Browse: Ambronay (label)

This is a good way of exploring that world and the performances are alive to all the nuances of the style in general and these pieces in particular, having given the first modern performances... — Early Music Review, December 2013 More…

I can have nothing but praise for the performance here. The ensemble and soloists are all first-rate, and their sensitive and lively interpretations of Destouches music are spot on. The instrumental... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

She combines a warm, flavoursome mezzo with a fiery dramatic temperament...to each of these songs, even the most guileless, she brings an intense personal involvement...Throughout [Arianna a... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 More…

d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this disc is not just some worthy exhumation but the rehabilitation of an composition bursting with imagination and gripping drama...There is indeed something 'other' about this piece, a hint... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…