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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

An immensely rewarding exploration of the richness of English consort music from the Elizabethan and post-Elizabethan periods...the two sopranos and consorts tell a compelling story of invention... — Sunday Times, 4th November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Yoncheva’s voice is justly famous for its rich, languorous tone that has transfigured many passionate roles from Monteverdi’s Poppea to recent heroines on her Handel and Verdi discs, and to... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The award-winning group Voces 8 is well-known for its wide-ranging programmes and accomplished technical control...In Monteverdi's Cantate Dominum (this is his 1620 setting, not the 1615 one)... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Put aside your awareness of the accordion as ‘modern’, the gamba as ‘ancient’, and just listen. Their timbres, their ranges, their sonorities perfectly complement each other, as does these musicians’... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

This is deluxe casting, allowing combinations from unaccompanied lute songs to an a cappella duet, and lute solos to five-part madrigals...Taylor - with one of the loveliest countertenor voices... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…