CD, Gluck (composer)

His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It is perhaps no surprise that the various 18th-century works included find DiDonato on especially thrilling form...Yet DiDonato shines, too, in the more contemporary works…This is a highly... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

I don’t know about any rivalry here, but Gens and Piau, both of whom have complete mastery over this repertoire, function extremely well individually (as one might expect) and in duo. They are... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022More…

Imperceptibly Viotti makes them her own, tender but tough in Rosina’s ‘Una voce poco fa’ and producing a cascade of diamondbright coloratura in ‘Bel raggio lusinghier’, as well as an astonishing... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Through his effortless line, countertenor Iestyn Davies revivifies Guadagni's Orphic powers...Whether drawing out sustained notes or knitting together filigreed coloratura, he is a paragon of... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…